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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS North Platte, NE

June 5, 2006Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2006, 6:56 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports 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: Jun 5, 2006, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Frontier County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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
Jun 5, 7:05 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Curtis, NE	PEA TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL REPORTED.
Jun 5, 7:40 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	5 W Stockville, NE	PEA TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED.
Jun 5, 7:55 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	11 Ssw Stockville, NE

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

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 44 minutes after it went out.

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
Jun 5, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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 
WUUS53 KLBF 052356
SVRLBF
NEC063-060045-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0074.060605T2356Z-060606T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
656 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 651 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CURTIS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  STOCKVILLE AND HIGHWAY 18 MILE MARKER 10 BY 715 PM CDT...

LAT...LON 4037 10073 4068 10073 4069 10059 4069 10037
      4068 9999 4047 10000 4044 10011 4036 10012

$$

MASEK

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 060012
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
712 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

NEC063-060045-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-060606T0045Z/
FRONTIER NE-
712 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR FRONTIER COUNTY...

AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
 THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CURTIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  STOCKVILLE AND HIGHWAY 18 MILE MARKER 10 BY 725 PM CDT...
  9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIGHWAY 18 MILE MARKER 20 BY 745 PM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4037 10073 4068 10073 4069 10059 4069 10037
      4068 9999 4047 10000 4044 10011 4036 10012

$$

MASEK

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 060033
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
733 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

NEC063-060045-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-060606T0045Z/
FRONTIER NE-
733 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR FRONTIER COUNTY...

AT 730 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR STOCKVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CURTIS...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIGHWAY 18 MILE MARKER 20 BY 740 PM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4037 10073 4068 10073 4069 10059 4069 10037
      4068 9999 4047 10000 4044 10011 4036 10012

$$

MASEK

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 5, 2:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
253 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

....SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK EXPECTED ACROSS SERN HALF OF FORECAST
AREA THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING...

.DISCUSSION...

MORNING MCS GENERATED AN MCV LOCATED NORTH OF GID AT 16Z.  REMNANT
BOUNDARY WILL BE A FOCUS AS WELL AS MAIN FRONT DRAPED FROM SE OF ANW
TO HYANNIS TO BIG SPRINGS. EXPECTED SEVER CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS
WITH A LIKELY MCS DEVELOPING. BEST LOCATION FOR THIS WILL BE
INITIATING NEAR ARTHUR COUNTY PROPAGATING SOUTHEAST THROUGH WEST
CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBR TONIGHT.
UNUSUAL FOR THIS SPRING SO FAR...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS LIKELY WITH AN ISOLATED TORNADOES
POSSIBLE NEAR BOUNDARIES.

WX WILL SETTLE DOWN TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS EXPENDING UPPER RIDGE
TRAVERSES THE CENTRAL PLAINS. TEMPS TO REACH LOWER 90S MOST AREAS
WEDNESDAY. EVEN WARMER THURSDAY WITH LOWER TO MID 90S. UPPER RIDGE
BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN AS UPPER TROUGH IN WEST MOVES IN. SLIGHT CHC
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT THOROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.
AS UPPER FLOW IS ZONAL AND H7 TEMPS COOL A BIT WITH A WEAKER CAP.

.LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 437 FOR
COUNTIES GENERALLY EAST OF BIG SPRINGS THROUGH AINSWORTH UNTIL 02Z.

&&

KAR

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
309 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-062015-
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-
309 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 /209 PM MDT MON JUN 5 2006/

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

AN ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER DAY IS EXPECTED TONIGHT EAST OF LINE
FROM AINSWORTH TO OSHKOSH. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY
BEFORE SUNSET. LOCAL AREAS EXPERIENCING INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MAY
RECEIVE HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLY MORE THAN ONE INCH OF RAINFALL.
OTHERWISE GENERALLY LESS THAN ONE HALF INCH OF RAINFALL IS
EXPECTEDED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE.
THE EXTENT OF THE THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE AND THE POTENTIAL TO
BECOME SEVERE IS UNCERTAIN BUT THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE
SLIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING EAST OF LINE FROM
AINSWORTH TO OGALLALA.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...
HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE)

MASEK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
550 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0530 PM     HAIL             5 SE STAPLETON          41.43N 100.44W
06/05/2006  E0.75 INCH       LOGAN              NE   PUBLIC

&&

BTAYLOR

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:00 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
600 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0555 PM     HAIL             10 WSW ARNOLD           41.37N 100.37W
06/05/2006  E1.00 INCH       LINCOLN            NE   PUBLIC

            NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED LASTING 5 TO 10
            MINUTES

&&

BTAYLOR

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:16 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
616 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0615 PM     HAIL             12 WSW CALLAWAY         41.22N 100.13W
06/05/2006  E0.75 INCH       CUSTER             NE   PUBLIC

&&

BTAYLOR

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:18 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
618 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0617 PM     HAIL             NORTH PLATTE            41.13N 100.77W
06/05/2006  E1.00 INCH       LINCOLN            NE   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

BTAYLOR

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:42 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
642 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0640 PM     HAIL             4 W CHAMPION            40.47N 101.79W
06/05/2006  E4.25 INCH       CHASE              NE   PUBLIC

            BASEBALL TO SOFTBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED

&&

BTAYLOR

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:51 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
651 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0640 PM     HAIL             4 W CHAMPION            40.47N 101.79W
06/05/2006  E4.25 INCH       CHASE              NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            BASEBALL TO SOFTBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED

&&

BTAYLOR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	53 min
Jun 5, 3:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	34 min
Jun 5, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	35 min
Jun 5, 5:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln, Perkins	61 min
Jun 5, 7:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	55 min
Jun 5, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	18 min
Jun 5, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Cherry	59 min
Jun 5, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, McPherson	58 min
Jun 5, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	47 min
Jun 5, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	53 min
Jun 5, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	48 min
Jun 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	45 min
Jun 5, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	56 min
Jun 5, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	59 min
Jun 5, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	47 min
Jun 5, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	52 min
Jun 5, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	60 min
Jun 5, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	65 min
Jun 5, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	47 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.