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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE

April 6, 2006Blaine County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2006, 6:29 PM CDT for Blaine County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2006, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2006, 6:55 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Blaine County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 6, 6:37 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	12 Ne Dunning, NE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 1708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLBF 062329
SVRLBF
NEC009-070015-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0013.060406T2329Z-060407T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
629 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 626 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HIGHWAY 91 MILE MARKER 10...
  OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF BREWSTER...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN BLAINE COUNTY AT 640 PM CDT
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN BLAINE COUNTY AT 700 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4186 10005 4194 9990 4208 9994 4208 10026
      4184 10024

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 062355
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
654 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006

NEC009-070004-
/O.CAN.KLBF.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060407T0015Z/
BLAINE NE-
654 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BLAINE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED A NO POSES A 
SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TO BLAINE COUNTY AT THIS TIME. HAIL AS LARGE 
AS QUARTER HAD BEEN REPORTED...AND MANY PLACES HAD PEA TO MARBLE 
SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.

IF SEVERE WEATHER WAS OBSERVED...PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM PASS THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NORTH PLATTE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4186 10005 4194 9990 4208 9994 4208 10026
      4184 10024

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 3:48 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	LBF	Arthur, Chase, Cherry, Deuel, Frontier, Garden and 8 more	35 hr
Apr 6, 2:52 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LBF	Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 13 more	28 hr
Apr 6, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, Thomas	44 min
Apr 6, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	45 min
Apr 6, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Cherry	59 min
Apr 6, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan, Thomas	37 min
Apr 6, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wheeler	20 min
Apr 6, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	32 min
Apr 6, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	51 min
Apr 6, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	32 min
Apr 6, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	46 min
Apr 6, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	46 min
Apr 6, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	42 min
Apr 6, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha, Rock	56 min
Apr 6, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	64 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.