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Freeze Warning 1, NWS North Platte, NE

September 27, 200910 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this freeze warning at Sep 27, 2009, 2:54 PM MDT for 10 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Sep 28, 2009, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 27, 2009, 2:54 PM MDT (20:54 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 28, 2009, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired
Sep 28, 2009, 8:34 AM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Arthur County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 244 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 2009-09-27Temperature 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 2009-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 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 freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Sep 27, 2:53 PM MDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 2:53 PM MDT, 1 minute before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 27, 2:29 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
329 PM CDT SUN SEP 27 2009

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-281000-
SHERIDAN-EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-GARDEN-
GRANT-HOOKER-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-ARTHUR-MCPHERSON-
LOGAN-CUSTER-DEUEL-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN-CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER-
WESTERN CHERRY-
329 PM CDT SUN SEP 27 2009 /229 PM MDT SUN SEP 27 2009/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THE GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH WITH THE LOSS OF
HEATING THIS EVENING. THEN AS THE SURFACE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE
BUILDS SOUTH AND EAST OVERNIGHT MUCH COLDER AND DRIER AIR WILL BE
USHERED IN. BY DAYBREAK MONDAY A FREEZE IS LIKELY FOR MUCH OF THE
SANDHILLS SOUTH TO THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER VALLEY...AND IN AREAS
WEST OF A LINE FROM CODY IN CHERRY COUNTY TO NORTH PLATTE IN
LINCOLN COUNTY AS TEMPERATURES DROP AT OR BELOW 32 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT WITH A FREEZING WARNING IN EFFECT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

WEDNESDAY A FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL PUSH EAST WITH A CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS BY EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...
HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE

KECK

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.