Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2007, 11:20 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2007, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2007, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLBF 300421 FFWLBF NEC111-301015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1120 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 515 AM CDT * AT 1112 PM CDT...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUED OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO JEFFREY CANYON STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...COTTONWOOD CANYON STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...LAKE MALONEY STATE RECREATION AREA... MAXWELL AND BRADY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A HALF INCH TO INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTH PLATTE. LAT...LON 4071 10123 4071 10023 4138 10025 $$ KAR
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KLBF 300739 FFSLBF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 236 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2007 NEC111-301015- LINCOLN NE- 236 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 233 AM CDT...THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED OUT OF LINCOLN COUNTY. ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS ARE EXPECTED NOW. HOWEVER...THE DRAINAGE FROM THE STORMS THAT WERE IN THE AREA WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE UNTIL AT LEAST 430 AM CDT. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO JEFFREY CANYON STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...COTTONWOOD CANYON STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...LAKE MALONEY STATE RECREATION AREA... MAXWELL AND BRADY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4071 10123 4071 10023 4138 10025 $$ SPRINGER
000 WGUS73 KLBF 301017 FFSLBF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 515 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2007 NEC111-301025- LINCOLN NE- 515 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY... RAINSHOWERS WERE MOVING IN FROM THE NORTH...BUT HEAVY RAIN IS NOT LIKELY WITH THE SHOWERS. LAT...LON 4071 10123 4071 10023 4138 10025 $$ SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| May 29, 8:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 6 hr |
| May 29, 10:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Custer | 6 hr |
| May 29, 10:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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.