Alert archive / Nebraska / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 21, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this wind advisory at Oct 12, 2008, 3:35 AM CDT for 9 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 12, 2008, 6:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2008, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 12, 2008, 6:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2008, 11:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Boyd County, NE, Custer County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Loup County, NE, Rock County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KLBF 120835 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 335 AM CDT SUN OCT 12 2008 ...WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TODAY... .A STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL INCREASE SOUTHERLY WINDS EAST OF A LINE FROM NORTH PLATTE TO BASSETT THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. AS THE SYSTEM CONTINUES TO DEVELOP...A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED MOVE EAST AND WILL SWITCH WINDS TO THE NORTHWEST AND THEY SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE SOME AS WELL BY LATE AFTERNOON. NEZ007-009-010-027>029-038-059-071-121645- /O.NEW.KLBF.WI.Y.0021.081012T1100Z-081012T2100Z/ BOYD-ROCK-HOLT-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-CUSTER-LINCOLN-FRONTIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPENCER...BASSETT...ONEILL...TAYLOR... BURWELL...BARTLETT...BROKEN BOW...NORTH PLATTE...CURTIS...EUSTIS 335 AM CDT SUN OCT 12 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL BE COMMON...WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ JWS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KLBF 121620 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1120 AM CDT SUN OCT 12 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... NEZ007-009-010-027>029-038-059-071-121730- /O.CAN.KLBF.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-081012T2100Z/ BOYD-ROCK-HOLT-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-CUSTER-LINCOLN-FRONTIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPENCER...BASSETT...ONEILL...TAYLOR... BURWELL...BARTLETT...BROKEN BOW...NORTH PLATTE...CURTIS...EUSTIS 1120 AM CDT SUN OCT 12 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT ADVANCES EAST ACROSS THE REGION. HOWEVER...WIND GUSTS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO EXCEED 30 TO 35 MPH...AND WILL NOT MEET WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. THIS HAS PROMPTED THE CANCELLATION OF THE ADVISORY THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT. $$ GARNER
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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.