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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS North Platte, NE

July 31, 2009Custer County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2009, 7:14 PM CDT for Custer County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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: Jul 31, 2009, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2009, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Custer County, NE, Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 31, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 651 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2289 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLBF 010014
SVRLBF
NEC041-111-010100-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0340.090801T0014Z-090801T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
714 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
  EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  BRADY...OR 21 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BRADY BY 720 PM CDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 4102 10049 4116 10039 4108 9998 4104 9997
      4103 10021 4097 10021 4096 10022
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 302DEG 19KT 4110 10037

$$

KAR

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 010024
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
724 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

NEC041-111-010100-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0340.000000T0000Z-090801T0100Z/
CUSTER NE-LINCOLN NE-
724 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN AND SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTIES...

AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR BRADY...OR 24 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 740 PM CDT
  RURAL SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY AT 740 PM CDT

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

&&

LAT...LON 4102 10049 4116 10039 4108 9998 4104 9997
      4103 10021 4097 10021 4096 10022
TIME...MOT...LOC 0024Z 303DEG 20KT 4107 10031

$$

KAR

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 010052 RRA
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
752 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

NEC041-111-010101-
/O.EXP.KLBF.SV.W.0340.000000T0000Z-090801T0100Z/
CUSTER NE-LINCOLN NE-
752 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN AND
SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND EXITED 
THE AREA. HOWEVER ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE 
FOR THE NEXT HOUR WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH. 

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4102 10049 4116 10039 4108 9998 4104 9997
      4103 10021 4097 10021 4096 10022
TIME...MOT...LOC 0051Z 303DEG 20KT 4099 10015

$$

KAR

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 31, 2:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
258 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

.DISCUSSION...
COLD FRONT JUST NOW MAKING IT/S WAY INTO NORTHWEST NEBRASKA...WITH
TOWERING CU INVOF OF THE FRONT. BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RESIDES
JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THIS AREA ACROSS SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL
NEBRASKA. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP SHORTLY ACROSS NORTHWEST
NEBRASKA...AND THEN INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE BETTER
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. SHEAR PROFILES INCREASE BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AND WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
CONTINUING TO INCREASE /DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S/
EXPECT A FEW OF THE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WIND. FRONT AND STORMS SHOULD HAVE EXITED ALL OF THE AREA
BY 06Z SATURDAY...WITH DRY AND COOL AIR FILTERING IN BEHIND THE
FRONT. THIS DRY AND COOL AIR SHOULD LEAD TO A NICE DAY
SATURDAY...ALTHOUGH WINDS COULD GUST UP TO 20 MPH AT TIMES FROM THE
NORTHWEST. HIGHS SHOULD REACH THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S. HIGH
PRESSURE CENTER OVER THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT...SO CLEAR...CALM...AND
COOL CONDITIONS EXPECTED. SUNDAY...SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL BRING SOME
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE BACK INTO THE AREA...AND ALSO WARMER TEMPS. A
COLD FRONT WILL MAKE IT/S WAY INTO THE AREA BY LATE AFTERNOON...WITH
TEMPS INTO THE 90S FOR NEARLY ALL LOCATIONS AHEAD OF THE FRONT.
SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EASTERN PARTS OF THE AREA
BY LATE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT WERE THE BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL
RESIDE...ALONG WITH THE COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH. MODELS HAVE COME
INTO BETTER AGREEMENT NEXT WEEK...AND APPEARS AS IF THE HUDSON BAY
LOW WILL WEAKEN SOME...AND A TROUGH/UPPER LOW WILL MOVE INTO THE
WESTERN CONUS. THIS SPELLS WARMER WEATHER FOR OUR PART OF THE
COUNTRY. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL INCREASE SOME AS WELL...AND THIS
COULD LEAD TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND NIGHTTIME THUNDERSTORMS.
APPEARS BEST CHANCES WILL COME DURING MID WEEK...AS THE TROUGH
OUT WEST EJECTS SOME UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES EAST ACROSS THE
AREA.
&&

.AVIATION...
VISUAL FLIGHT RULES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 18Z SATURDAY. MODELS ARE IN
FAIR AGREEMENT WITH THE COLD FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHWEST NEB WILL
EXIT WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEB BY 03Z. CUMULUS FIELDS ARE
FORMING WITH PEAK HEATING OF THE DAY WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THAT MAY DROP CEILINGS BRIEFLY TO NEAR
MARGINAL VISUAL FLIGHT RULES. THESE STORMS WILL PASS QUICKLY WITH
BRIEF MENTION IN KLBF AND KVTN TAFS. WINDS MAY BE PROBLEMATIC WITH
CONVECTION WITH ACTIVE WEATHER TO MOVE SOUTHEAST BEYOND 03Z THEN
VISUAL FLIGHT RULES THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD FOR AREA TERMINALS.

&&

.LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

DISCUSSION...TAYLOR
AVIATION...KECK

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 3:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
306 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-010615-
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-
306 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009 /206 PM MDT FRI JUL 31 2009/

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EVENING.
THE GREATEST RISK WILL EXTEND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CHAPPELL IN
DEUEL COUNTY...TO BROWNLEE IN CHERRY COUNTY....TO AINSWORTH IN
BROWN COUNTY...TP ONEILL AND EWING IN HOLT COUNTY. A COLD FRONT
WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST THIS EVENING ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA WITH
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP...SOME OF WHICH
MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AFTER
9 PM CDT...THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL END AS THE COLD
FRONT PUSHES SOUTHEAST.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK
AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

&&

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

KECK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 31, 6:14 PM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
614 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0610 PM     HAIL             11 WNW CHAMBERS         42.27N 98.95W
07/31/2009  E1.00 INCH       HOLT               NE   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

MBYRD

Local storm report, Jul 31, 6:39 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
639 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0638 PM     HAIL             3 NW MERNA              41.52N 99.80W
07/31/2009  E0.88 INCH       CUSTER             NE   PUBLIC

            THE GROUND IS COVERED WITH NICKEL SIZED HAIL.

&&

MBYRD

Local storm report, Jul 31, 6:41 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
641 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0640 PM     HAIL             3 N MERNA               41.53N 99.76W
07/31/2009  E1.00 INCH       CUSTER             NE   PUBLIC

&&

MBYRD

Local storm report, Jul 31, 7:00 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
700 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0656 PM     TSTM WND GST     BROKEN BOW              41.41N 99.64W
07/31/2009  M58 MPH          CUSTER             NE   ASOS

&&

MBYRD

Local storm report, Jul 31, 7:12 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
712 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0650 PM     HAIL             4 NW BROKEN BOW         41.45N 99.69W
07/31/2009  E1.00 INCH       CUSTER             NE   PUBLIC

            THUNDERSTORM WINDS EST AT 60PMH.

&&

MBYRD

Local storm report, Jul 31, 7:13 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
713 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0710 PM     HAIL             5 NW BARTLETT           41.94N 98.62W
07/31/2009  E1.00 INCH       WHEELER            NE   PUBLIC

&&

MBYRD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	47 min
Jul 31, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.