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Winter Storm Watch 4, NWS North Platte, NE

April 11, 20074 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this winter storm watch at Apr 11, 2007, 2:36 PM MDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Apr 13, 2007, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 11, 2007, 2:36 PM MDT (20:36 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 13, 2007, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired
Apr 12, 2007, 12:12 PM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Chase County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Perkins County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-04-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2088 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Apr 11, 1:54 PM MDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 1:54 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 11:11 AM MDTWind AdvisoryLBFArthur, Chase, Deuel, Frontier, Garden, Grant and 6 more7 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Nebraska, 2007Every winter storm watch 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.