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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2006, 6:15 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2006, 6:15 PM MDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2006, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 1:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 678 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 Jun 9, 1:53 PM MDT, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:53 PM MDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 253 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 .DISCUSSION... SEVERE WEATHER IS IMMINENT AT THIS POINT. SKIES IS CUEING UP. 12Z NAM SUGGESTS STORMS WILL TRACK THROUGH THE HEART OF THE SANDHILLS FOLLOWING THE THETA E RIDGE POSITIONED BEHIND THE SFC COLD FRONT. ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY COULD FIRE SATURDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS SWRN NEB AS PRESUMABLY THIS POINT THE FRONT WOULD BE LOCATED THERE. SUNDAY LOOKS QUIETER AS THE FRONT IS FARTHER SOUTH. BUT HAVE CONTINUED POP ACROSS WRN ZONES AS THE FRONT WOULD BE POSITIONED ACROSS THE FRONT RANGE OR VERY CLOSE. CLOSE ENOUGH FOR STORMS TO FIRE ACROSS ERN WY AND THE NEB PANHANDLE. MONDAY AND BEYOND...RUN TO RUN CONTINUITY HAS BEEN POOR. THE GFS AND ECMWF NOW SUGGEST THE FRONT WILL LIFT NORTH INTO THE DAKOTAS WITH H5-10DM THICKNESS RISING ABOVE 580DM ACROSS FCST AREA. THE NEW MEX GUIDANCE IS 10 TO 14F WARMER THAN YESTERDAYS. FCST HAS GONE HALF WAY TOWARD THE WARMER GUIDANCE...WITH HIGHS POSITIONED IN THE 80S VERSUS GUIDANCE FCST OF MID 90S. WITH THE FRONT NORTH...PRESUMABLY POPS WILL BE LOW SO THAT ASPECT OF THE FCST HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED. THE HPC DAYS 1-5 PCPN PROG IS BASICALLY DRY. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 454 UNTIL 02Z PARTS OF WESTERN NEB. && CDC
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 3:22 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 422 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-102130- SHERIDAN-EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-GARDEN- GRANT-HOOKER-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-ARTHUR-MCPHERSON- LOGAN-CUSTER-DEUEL-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN-CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER- WESTERN CHERRY- 422 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 /322 PM MDT FRI JUN 9 2006/ ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH PORTIONS WESTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA...NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 AND WEST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE TO OGALLALA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A STATIONARY BOUNDARY OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA. THE MAIN THREAT FROM STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING. THE FRONT IS LIKELY TO STALL FROM THE HIGH PLAINS OF WYOMING AND COLORADO AND ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. AS A RESULT...THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS ALONG AND SOUTH OF NEBRASKA HIGHWAY 2 WITH THE GREATEST RISK ALONG INTERSTATE 80 AND SOUTH. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. A LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL DEVELOP ON THE HIGH PLAINS FRONT AND IS FORECAST TO CROSS INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS... GENERATING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE) MP
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:19 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 6:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 3:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 28 min |
| Jun 10, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 20 min |
| Jun 10, 3:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 3:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 3:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden, Keith | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 4:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 4:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 5:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 32 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.