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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS North Platte, NE

June 3, 2005Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2005, 4:51 PM CDT for Frontier 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, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Frontier County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 76 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KLBF 032154
FFWLBF
NEC063-040045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
451 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CURTIS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 447 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. THIS 
  AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH BUT WILL PERSIST 
  UNTIL AT LEAST 6 PM. RAIN WILL FALL AT THE RATE OF 1 TO 1 AND 1/2 
  INCHES PER HOUR AND PRODUCE FLOODING.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  STOCKVILLE...MAYWOOD AND EUSTIS.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES 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. AVOID CANYONS AND LOW LYING FLOOD 
PRONE AREAS.

LAT...LON 4035 10075 4036 10011 4046 10010 4046 10000       
4068 9999 4068 10075

$$

CDC

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KLBF 032318
FFSLBF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
616 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

NEC063-040045-
FRONTIER NE-
616 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR FRONTIER
COUNTY...

AT 614 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CURTIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD MOVED OUT OF FRONTIER COUNTY...BUT RUNOFF WILL 
CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER HOUR.SPR

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
STOCKVILLE...MAYWOOD AND EUSTIS.

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 4035 10075 4036 10011 4046 10010 4046 10000
      4068 9999 4068 10075

$$

SPRINGER

000 
WGUS73 KLBF 040044
FFSLBF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
743 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

NEC063-040053-
FRONTIER NE-
743 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FRONTIER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 745 PM
CDT...

THE HEAVY RAIN THAT WAS OCCURRING HAD MOVED OUT OF THE 
COUNTY...THOUGH RAIN IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE UNTIL AT 9 PM CDT IN THE 
NORTHWEST PART OF FRONTIER COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RUNOFF COULD STILL 
CAUSE FLOODING IN WASHES AND GULLIES.

LAT...LON 4035 10075 4036 10011 4046 10010 4046 10000
      4068 9999 4068 10075

$$

SPRINGER

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, 5:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Custer	3 hr

Nearby

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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.