Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2005, 5:57 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2005, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLBF 032257 FFWLBF NEC041-040200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 557 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BROKEN BOW * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 551 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COMSTOCK TO BERWYN TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CALLAWAY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WEISSERT...MERNA AND SARGENT. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF MORE THAN TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4107 9924 4106 10024 4152 10019 4173 9921 $$ SPRINGER
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KLBF 040034 FFSLBF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 733 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 NEC041-040200- CUSTER NE- 733 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR CUSTER COUNTY... AT 729 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM GATES TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW TO MASON CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO OCONTO...CALLAWAY...ARNOLD...MERNA...ANSLEY...BERWYN...WESTERVILLE... WEISSERT...COMSTOCK AND SARGENT. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ABOUT AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4108 9926 4107 10026 4153 10021 4174 9923 $$ SPRINGER
000 WGUS73 KLBF 040159 FFSLBF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 858 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 NEC041-040208- CUSTER NE- 858 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CUSTER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 900 PM CDT... THE RAIN HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY. HOWEVER...CONTINUED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND RUNOFF COULD STILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. LAT...LON 4108 9926 4107 10026 4153 10021 4174 9923 $$ SPRINGER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 3, 2:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 208 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 .DISCUSSION... VOLATILE HEAVY RAIN SITUATION MAY BE DEVELOPING FOR TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AM ACROSS PARTS OF CNTL NEB. MID LATITUDE DISTURBANCE OVER COLO IS PROGGED TO INTERCEPT TROPICAL MOISTURE AND ASSOCIATED DISTURBANCE MOVING DUE NORTH THRU KS. THIS COMBINED SYSTEM THEN DEEPENS RAPIDLY OVERNIGHT TO 992 MB BY 12Z SAT AT THE SFC AS IT MOVES RAPIDLY NORTHWARD. BOTH THE AVN AND UKMET SUPPORT THIS SOLN. THE NAM HOLDS THE TWO SYSTEMS SOMEWHAT SEPARATE. ALL MODELS PRODUCE HEAVY PCPN CENTERS ACROSS CNTL NEB. AVN IS FARTHER WEST. THE MET AND FWC GUIDANCE SUGGEST THE HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT WILL FAVOR A GRI TO OFK LINE WHILE THE MAV GUIDANCE INDICATES A LXN TO ONL LINE. ALL GUIDANCE SUGGESTS ATLEAST A CAT 5 RAIN EVENT...1-2 INCHES WITH SOME OF THE GUIDANCE SUGGESTING CAT 6...OVER 2 INCHES IN 12 HOURS. WILL WAIT ON THE 18Z ETA12 FOR DECISION MAKING ON WHETHER TO ADD COUNTIES WEST OF HIGHWAY 83 TO THE FLOOD WATCH. CONFIDENCE IS HIGH FOR A HEAVY RAIN EVENT IN NEBRASKA TONIGHT BUT LOWER CONFIDENCE FOR THE LOCATION OR THE HEAVY RAINFALL. AT 18Z VERY HEAVY CONVECTION WAS BREAKING OUT ACROSS WESTERN KS AND PROFILER WINDS AT MCCOOK WERE SHOWING DEEP EASTERLIES DEVELOPING IN CONJUNCTION THE TROPICAL WAVE MOVING NORTH. THIS SUPPORTS THE AVN SO ADDITIONAL COUNTIES WILL LIKELY BE ADDED TO THE FLOOD WATCH LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE ETA AND AVN SHOW STRONG WEST WINDS SATURDAY AFTN WITH DRYING AND SHRA ACTIVITY ENDING. DRYING CONTINUES SATURDAY NIGHT. SUNDAY SHOULD BE DRY AND SUNNY. MONDAY-TUESDAY...ALL MODELS...ECMWF...NAM...GFS ARE IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT. SHORT WAVE RIDGE AMPLIFIES STRONGLY ACROSS THE CNTL PLAINS AND H1000-500 THICKNESS NOW PROGGED TO RISE TO 575-580DM SIGNALING A SHORT BUT SHART HEAT WAVE. TEMPS COULD RISE TO NEAR 90F MONDAY. MODELS CONT TO TREND WARMER WITH THIS FEATURE AND IN FACT SHOW OVERALL THE ATM BECOMING MORE AMPLIFIED...UNSTABLE AND CAPPED. THE HIGHER RESOLUTION DGEX MODEL INDICATES ISOLD TSRA TUESDAY NIGHT...PROBABLY THE ATM IS CAPPED WITH 14C 700MB TEMPS AS CONVECTION FIZZLES AFTER DARK. THIS CAP THEN WEAKENS WEDS AND CONTINUES WEAK THROUGH FRIDAY. WED-FRI...THE NAM AND GFS SHOW ANOTHER MAJOR LEAGUE WESTERN U.S. UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVING SLOWLY EAST TOWARD THE CNTL PLAINS. PROBABLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS PIECES OF ENERGY WILL EJECT OUT OF THE SYSTEM AND FIRE OFF A SERIES OF MCS DURING THIS TIME FRAME. FCST IS FOR COOLER WITH CHC TSRA EACH DAY. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA. && CDC
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 320 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-040600- ARTHUR NE-BLAINE NE-BOYD NE-BROWN NE-CHASE NE-CUSTER NE-DEUEL NE- EASTERN CHERRY NE-FRONTIER NE-GARDEN NE-GARFIELD NE-GRANT NE- HAYES NE-HOLT NE-HOOKER NE-KEITH NE-KEYA PAHA NE-LINCOLN NE-LOGAN NE- LOUP NE-MCPHERSON NE-PERKINS NE-ROCK NE-SHERIDAN NE-THOMAS NE- WESTERN CHERRY NE-WHEELER NE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AINSWORTH...ARNOLD...ARTHUR...BASSETT... BIG SPRINGS...BREWSTER...BROKEN BOW...BURWELL...CHAPPELL...CURTIS... GORDON...GRANT...HAY SPRINGS...HAYES CENTER...IMPERIAL...MULLEN... NORTH PLATTE...ONEILL...OGALLALA...OSHKOSH...RUSHVILLE...SPENCER... SPRINGVIEW...STAPLETON...TAYLOR...THEDFORD...TRYON AND VALENTINE 320 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME...THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT EXISTS EAST OF A LINE FROM OSHKOSH...TO AINSWORTH...TO BUTTE. WEST OF THIS LINE...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL LIFT FROM WESTERN KANSAS AND EASTERN COLORADO INTO NEBRASKA TONIGHT. THIS FEATURE WILL COMBINE WITH A SURFACE FRONT...EXTENDING FROM NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO WESTERN KANSAS...TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN SEVERE THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL WITH A THREAT FOR ISOLATED LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ON SATURDAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE ONGOING AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE SLOWLY EXITS THE AREA. THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING THROUGH AT LEAST SATURDAY MORNING. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ONCE AGAIN BY TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DEEPENS IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT EAST OF A LINE FROM CURTIS...TO ANSLEY...TO BARTLETT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...EAST OF A LINE FROM OSHKOSH...TO AINSWORTH...TO BUTTE TO GIVE REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER AS WELL AS TO GIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS FOR THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Garden | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 10:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 11:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Custer | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Frontier | 3 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.