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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood watch at Jun 7, 2008, 3:52 AM CDT for 6 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jun 7, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2008, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 7, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2008, 2:58 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Boyd County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Rock County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 7, 3:32 AM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:32 AM CDT, 20 minutes before
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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.