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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2007, 3:43 PM CDT for Hayes 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
- Jun 12, 2007, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2007, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hayes County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLBF 122047 FFWLBF NEC085-130245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 343 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HAYES CENTER... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 335 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM PERSISTENT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HAYES CENTER AND HAMLET. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. RECENT RAINFALL WILL CAUSE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF AND FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. WATER MAY WASH OUT OR FLOW OVER MANY COUNTY ROADS IN HAYES COUNTY. TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED ON ANY COUNTY OR SECONDARY ROADS. UNPAVED ROADS MAY BECOME WASHED OUT AND IMPASSABLE. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 4035 10133 4034 10078 4069 10078 4069 10133 $$ KAR
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KLBF 122346 FFSLBF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 643 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2007 NEC085-122353- HAYES NE- 643 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR HAYES COUNTY... RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHARPLY DECREASED IN INTENSITY ACROSS HAYES COUNTY OVER THE PAST 1 TO 2 HOURS. THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS PASSED...HOWEVER SOME THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE FROM THE LATE EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR HAYES COUNTY. IF FLOODING WAS OBSERVED...CONTACT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND HAVE THEM PASS THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE. LAT...LON 4035 10133 4034 10078 4069 10078 4069 10133 $$ BUTTLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Chase | 119 min |
| Jun 11, 8:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 10:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Perkins | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 1:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Chase | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Perkins | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 48 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Chase | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 40 min |
| Jun 12, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Keith | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 4:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.