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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS North Platte, NE

April 19, 2005Wheeler County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2005, 9:55 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2005, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2005, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 19, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 1502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLBF 200256
SVRLBF
NEC183-200345-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0046.050420T0255Z-050420T0345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
955 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WHEELER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 950 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
  GOLF BALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BARTLETT...OR ABOUT 23
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELGIN...AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BARTLETT AT 1010 PM CDT
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN WHEELER COUNTY AT 1030 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK 
SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4175 9874 4175 9830 4208 9831 4207 9874

$$

KAR

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 200319
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1019 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

NEC183-200345-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0046.000000T0000Z-050420T0345Z/
WHEELER NE-
1019 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR
WHEELER COUNTY...

AT 1014 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE 
HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BARTLETT. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY 
STATIONARY.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BARTLETT BY 1000 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4175 9874 4175 9830 4208 9831 4207 9874

$$

KAR

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 19, 2:43 PM CDT, 7 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 2:43 PM CDT, 7 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
243 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

...FOCUS REMAINS SEVERE WX TODAY AND TOMORROW...

.DISCUSSION...
H5 LOW WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS TO THE NORTHEAST TODAY AND MODEL
CONSENSUS BRINGS FEATURE INTO N WI BY 00Z. BEHIND THIS SYSTEM
RIDGING BUILDS IN AHEAD OF STRONG UPPER LOW OVER E NV. THIS FEATURE
IS CUTOFF FROM BOTH THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN JET...AND WILL MEANDER
IN THE WESTERN CONUS THROUGH THE FCST PERIOD. NAM/GFS BREAK OFF A
PIECE OF THIS WHICH GETS CAUGHT UP IN THE NORTHERN JET AND CLEARS
THE CWA THURS NIGHT RESULTING IN DRIER NW FLOW...AND POSSIBLY AN END
TO MORNING FG AND STRATUS. WITH DAYTIME HEATING IN NW FLOW...FCST MAY
HAVE TO LOOK FOR ISO T WITH FLOW OFF BLACK HILLS IN THE EXTENDED...
BUT GENERALLY DRY WEEKEND EXPECTED. FURTHER DOWN THE LINE...GFS
ATTEMPTS TO BRING PRECIP CHANCES...MAYBE TSRA FOLLOWED BY A COLD
RAIN...INTO THE CWA IN THE MON THRU TUES TIME PERIOD...AS
SUBTROPICAL JET TAPS INTO CYCLONIC FLOW OVER THE PACIFIC AND
NEGATIVELY TILTED UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER NE CONUS. H3 JET THEN
DIVES S THROUGH THE HIGH PLAINS TUES AND PHASES WITH THE
SUBTROPICAL JET OVER THE SE CONUS. THIS SOLUTION SOMEWHAT IN DOUBT
AS CONFIDENCE IN ANY MODEL SOLUTION NOT HIGH WITH REGARD TO SPECIFICS
OF BREAKING DOWN BLOCKING PATTERN OVER THE WEST. THEREFORE EXTENDED
LEFT DRY FOR NOW.

FOR TODAY...CU FIELD CURRENTLY DEVELOPING OVER PANHANDLE...WITH
LIGHTNING NOW OVER S WY. AXIS OF INSTABILITY IN THE FORM OF -4
LI/S SPREADING WEST ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ZONE
004 IN NW. AT 18Z...SFC TROUGH EXTENDS FROM S MN INTO NW KS...BEHIND
THIS CONVERGENT WINDS WITH COLD FRONT DEVELOPING OVER PANHANDLE...20F
DIFFERENCE AT 18Z BETWEEN KLBF AND KCDR. GIVEN LAPS DATA...ETA12
APPEARS A BIT TOO FAR EAST WITH SBCAPE GRADIENT. WITH THIS IN MIND...
BRN WITHIN 25-45 RANGE INDICATE TOR POSSIBILITY WHICH COINCIDES WITH
SBCAPE GRADIENT WHICH OVER 100 MI RANGES FROM 1800 TO 0. THIS ZONE
WILL RUN IN THE S 2/3 OF THE CWA AND WEST OF KLBF INITIALLY...THEN
SLIDE EAST THIS EVENING. 18Z KLBF SOUNDING SHOWS WET BULB ZERO HGT AT
AROUND 6700 FT AGL...WHICH IS FAVORABLE FOR LARGE HAIL. LI -6.6...
BRN 28.4...AND ADJUSTED SBCAPE OF 2487. IR SHOWS OLD OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY FROM STORMS OVER SD RETREATING NORTH. STORMS WILL LIKELY
BECOME MULTICELLULAR OVERNIGHT AS THEY SLOWLY MOVE NORTH AND EAST...
HEAVY RAINFALL IS A POSSIBILITY WITH LOCALIZED 2 INCH AMOUNTS NOT
UNLIKELY ESPECIALLY...IN THE SANDHILLS AND VCTY AND NORTH OF I80.
LOCALLY...2 INCHES AT KLBF IN 2 HRS WILL PRODUCE SOME MINOR STREET
FLOODING.

TOMORROW...CHANCE OF SEVERE AGAIN...BUT WILL WAIT TO SEE HOW
ATMOSPHERE SETTLES AFTER ANY ACTIVITY OVERNIGHT. WOULD EXPECT BEST
CHANCE TO ANALYZE AFTER 12Z DATA TOMORROW...ALTHOUGH THE
EXPECTATION IS THAT HIGHEST THREAT AREA SHOULD TRANSLATE SLIGHTLY
EAST. GFS BRINGS IN LF H3 JET LATE TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT.

THURS...LOOKS COOLER WITH CAA AND CLOUD COVER. HAVE LOWERED TEMPS
IN THE GRIDS TO BELOW CLIMO.

FRI...NW FLOW AND DRIER...ESPECIALLY AFTERNOON...AS BL
MOISTURE DECREASES THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

&&

.LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

JMC

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 3:46 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
346 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-201100-
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
346 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA THROUGH 10 PM CDT...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE
OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT. THE COMBINATION OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE
AND A FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST COLORADO...INTO
CENTRAL NEBRASKA WILL PROVIDE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. AT THIS TIME...WITH DECENT LOW TO MID LEVEL
SHEAR PRESENT...THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE
HAIL. HOWEVER...SHEAR WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH THIS EVENING OVER
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TO SUPPORT ISOLATED TORNADOES.
THE AREA OF GREATEST CONCERN FOR TORNADOES IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
OSHKOSH...TO THEDFORD...TO TAYLOR. NORTH OF THIS LINE...THE THREAT
FOR TORNADOES WILL BE DIMINISHED SOMEWHAT...HOWEVER THE THREAT FOR
LARGE HAIL WILL EXIST. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE
THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP...AND WILL POSE A THREAT TO POTENTIALLY
ISOLATED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA ON WEDNESDAY. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXISTS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HAY SPRINGS TO BARTLETT. A SURFACE
FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL PUSH SOUTH INTO FAR SOUTHERN NEBRASKA ON
TUESDAY NIGHT. BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...THIS BOUNDARY WILL SERVE AS
THE FOCUS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WITH THE SURFACE BOUNDARY SOUTH
OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE FROM
LARGE HAIL. HOWEVER...IF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY BECOMES ESTABLISHED
ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...THE THREAT FOR AN
ISOLATED TORNADO WILL EXIST ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF THIS BOUNDARY.

ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS
POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE
WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER GROUPS ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL SHOULD BE PREPARED
FOR ACTIVATION THIS EVENING.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
AS WELL.

MASEK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 8:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
804 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0803 PM     HAIL             8 N HYANNIS             42.12N 101.76W
04/19/2005  1.25 INCH        CHERRY             NE   PUBLIC

            DIME TO HALF DOLLAR SIZED HAIL REPORTED COVERING THE
            GROUND.

&&

JSWEET

Local storm report, Apr 19, 8:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
811 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     HAIL             10 NW ARTHUR            41.67N 101.83W
04/19/2005  2.75 INCH        ARTHUR             NE   PUBLIC

            GOLF TO BASEBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED COVERING THE GROUND.

&&

JSWEET

Local storm report, Apr 19, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
850 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0845 PM     HAIL             8 N ARTHUR              41.69N 101.69W
04/19/2005  1.00 INCH        ARTHUR             NE   PUBLIC

&&

JSWEET

Local storm report, Apr 19, 9:29 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
929 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0927 PM     HAIL             9 WSW MULLEN            41.99N 101.20W
04/19/2005  0.88 INCH        HOOKER             NE   PUBLIC

            NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED WSW OF MULLEN NOT COVERING THE
            GROUND.

&&

JSWEET

Local storm report, Apr 19, 9:34 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
934 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0933 PM     HAIL             BARTLETT                41.88N 98.55W
04/19/2005  1.75 INCH        WHEELER            NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            GOLFBALL AND POSSIBLY LARGER HAIL REPORTED AT BARTLETT AT
            930 CDT.

&&

JSWEET

Local storm report, Apr 19, 9:52 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
952 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0950 PM     HAIL             MULLEN                  42.04N 101.04W
04/19/2005  0.88 INCH        HOOKER             NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NICKLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERIFF IN MULLEN.

&&

JSWEET

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant	30 min
Apr 19, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	63 min
Apr 19, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	62 min
Apr 19, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	62 min
Apr 19, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	58 min
Apr 19, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	51 min
Apr 19, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	32 min
Apr 19, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	54 min
Apr 19, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	30 min
Apr 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	42 min
Apr 19, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	56 min
Apr 19, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wheeler	48 min
Apr 19, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	34 min
Apr 19, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	25 min
Apr 19, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	48 min
Apr 19, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	33 min
Apr 19, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	41 min
Apr 19, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	54 min
Apr 19, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	31 min
Apr 19, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	60 min
Apr 19, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	46 min
Apr 19, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	38 min
Apr 19, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wheeler	47 min
Apr 19, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	47 min
Apr 19, 11:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Wheeler	6 hr
Apr 19, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	55 min
Apr 19, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	48 min

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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.