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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS North Platte, NE

June 26, 2008Garfield County, Wheeler County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2008, 9:39 PM CDT for Garfield County, Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2008, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2008, 10:29 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Garfield County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 26, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 2305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLBF 270239
SVRLBF
NEC071-183-270345-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0252.080627T0239Z-080627T0345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
939 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GARFIELD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BURWELL...
  SOUTHERN WHEELER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 934 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  BURWELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ERICSON BY 1010 PM CDT...
  PIBEL LAKE STATE RECREATION AREA AND 8 MILES SOUTH OF BARTLETT BY
  1025 PM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY
MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4173 9920 4191 9921 4194 9841 4173 9837
TIME...MOT...LOC 0239Z 272DEG 31KT 4179 9905

$$

GARNER

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 270317
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1017 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

NEC071-183-270345-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-080627T0345Z/
WHEELER NE-GARFIELD NE-
1017 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN GARFIELD AND SOUTHERN WHEELER COUNTIES...

AT 1016 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAY 91 MILE MARKER 70...OR 13 MILES EAST OF
BURWELL...MOVING EAST AT 23 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ERICSON BY 1040 PM CDT...
  8 MILES WEST OF PIBEL LAKE STATE RECREATION AREA BY 1045 PM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY
MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4173 9842 4174 9909 4184 9903 4188 9840
      4175 9837 4173 9837
TIME...MOT...LOC 0317Z 273DEG 20KT 4175 9888

$$

GARNER

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 270329
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1029 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

NEC071-183-270339-
/O.CAN.KLBF.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-080627T0345Z/
WHEELER NE-GARFIELD NE-
1029 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GARFIELD AND
SOUTHERN WHEELER COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY
MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4173 9842 4174 9909 4184 9903 4188 9840
      4175 9837 4173 9837
TIME...MOT...LOC 0329Z 273DEG 20KT 4175 9879

$$

GARNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker, Thomas	40 min
Jun 26, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Keith, Perkins	49 min
Jun 26, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	43 min
Jun 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Logan, Thomas	62 min
Jun 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Perkins	52 min
Jun 26, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan, McPherson	48 min
Jun 26, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	41 min
Jun 26, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	41 min
Jun 26, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	48 min
Jun 26, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	21 min
Jun 26, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer, Garfield, Loup	47 min
Jun 26, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	47 min
Jun 26, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Lincoln	40 min
Jun 26, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	14 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.