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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2008, 3:52 PM MDT for 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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
- May 22, 2008, 3:52 PM MDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2008, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Arthur County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, McPherson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:13 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 22, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 599 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 651 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 222152 SVRLBF NEC005-091-101-111-117-222230- /O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0049.080522T2152Z-080522T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 452 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... NORTHEASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... SOUTHWESTERN HOOKER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT/430 PM MDT/ * AT 449 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DIAMOND BAR LAKE...OR 21 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DIAMOND BAR LAKE BY 520 PM CDT... SCHNICK LAKE BY 525 PM CDT... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAND BEACH LAKE BY 530 PM CDT... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING/900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING/ FOR THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING/900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING/ FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4173 10155 4178 10104 4121 10094 4118 10129 TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 170DEG 34KT 4128 10116 $$ DDB
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KLBF 222207 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 506 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 NEC005-091-101-111-117-222230- /O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080522T2230Z/ MCPHERSON NE-ARTHUR NE-LINCOLN NE-HOOKER NE-KEITH NE- 506 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT/430 PM MDT/ FOR NORTHEASTERN KEITH...SOUTHWESTERN HOOKER... NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN...NORTHEASTERN ARTHUR AND WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTIES... AT 503 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DIAMOND BAR LAKE...OR 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRYON...MOVING NORTH AT 39 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SCHNICK LAKE AND DIAMOND BAR LAKE BY 520 PM CDT... 9 MILES EAST OF HIGHWAY 92 MILE MARKER 180 BY 525 PM CDT... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAND BEACH LAKE BY 530 PM CDT... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING/900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING/ FOR THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING/900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING/ FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4173 10155 4178 10104 4121 10094 4118 10129 TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 170DEG 34KT 4141 10119 $$ DDB
000 WWUS53 KLBF 222228 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 526 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 NEC005-091-101-111-117-222236- /O.EXP.KLBF.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080522T2230Z/ MCPHERSON NE-ARTHUR NE-LINCOLN NE-HOOKER NE-KEITH NE- 526 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN KEITH... SOUTHWESTERN HOOKER...NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN...NORTHEASTERN ARTHUR AND WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 530 PM CDT/430 PM MDT/... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING/900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING/ FOR THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING/900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING/ FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4173 10155 4178 10104 4121 10094 4118 10129 TIME...MOT...LOC 2226Z 170DEG 34KT 4160 10123 $$ DDB
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 36 min |
| May 22, 2:53 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | LBF | Arthur, Chase, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant and 3 more | 12 hr |
| May 22, 11:48 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Chase, Custer, Deuel, Frontier and 10 more | 3 hr |
| May 22, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 42 min |
| May 22, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes, Perkins | 42 min |
| May 22, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes, Perkins | 45 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.