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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS North Platte, NE

June 7, 2010Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2010, 7:04 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2010, 7:04 PM MDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2010, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.75 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 7, 6:55 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2010-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2010-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 Jun 7, 3:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
400 PM CDT MON JUN 7 2010

.DISCUSSION...

EARLY EVENING PLAYED OUT A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN ANTICIPATED 24
HOURS AGO WITH CONVECTION FIRING FARTHER NORTH ACROSS CENTRAL AND
NORTHERN PANHANDLE BEFORE SHIFTING SOUTHWARD INTO CENTRAL SANDHILLS
AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL. LARGE MCS CONTIUES TO
DRIFT EASTWARD THIS MORNING WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FLOWING THROUGH NW
KANSAS ATTM. WATER VAPOR SHOWS UPSTREAM ENERGY CONTINUING TO FLOW
OUT OF EASTERN GREAT BASIN INTO CO/WY ROCKIES AND THIS ASCENT OVER
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IS ALLOWING CONVECTION TO CONTINUE TO SPROUT IN
EASTERN CO AND SW NEB. ACROSS NW NEB INTO BLACK HILLS THIS LIFT IS
OCCURRING MORE LIKELY IN R ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER JET THAT IS
PROGRESSING THROUGH WESTERN SDAKOT AHEAD OF THE UPPER SYSTEM MOVING
THROUGH THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS/CANADIAN PRAIRIES. AS SUCH WILL
NEED TO KEEP PCPN CHANCE THIS MORNING WITH BASED ON 88D MOSAIC
TRENDS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. DRIER AIR MOVING SOUTHWARD AS HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDS DOWN THE HIGH PLAINS SHOULD BEGIN TO LIMIT PCPN
POTENTIAL THO STEEPER LAPSE RATES TO THE NORTH AND UPPER DYNAMICS
MAY BE JUST ENOUGH TO KEEP ISO MENTION IN FOR THE AFTERNOON. SOME
DISCREPENCY BETWEEN MODEL SOLN ON STRENGTH OF SFC HIGH AND THE
TIMING OF THIS AIRMASS SLIDING EASTWARD. LEANING TOWARD THE WRF AND
SREF WITH MOISTURE RETURN MOVING OFF THE FRONT RANGE INTO THE HIGH
PLAINS AND WESTERN NEBRASKA BY THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND MID LEVEL
WAA HELPING TO SPREAD AT LEAST ISOLATED CONVECTION ACROSS THE FAR
WESTERN CWA THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. APPROACHING WESTERN UPPER
TROF SHOULD LEAD TO CYCLOGENESIS ACROSS EASTERN CO PLAINS AND THIS
TIGHTENING PRESSURE GRADIENT SHOULD ALLOW FOR BETTER MOISTURE INTO
HIGH PLAINS ON STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW AND EXPECT EML TO MOVE OVHD
WITH FLOW TURNING SW ALOFT...AND STRONG TO SEVERE CONVECTION SHOULD
FORM IN THE HIGH TERRAIN TO THE WEST AND MOVE INTO WESTERN CWA
THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. ACTIVE LLVL JET SHOULD SUSTAIN THIS
ACROSS THE CWA THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. WARM DAY LOOKS ON
TRACK FOR THURSDAY AS SW FLOW INCREASES FROM THE 4 CORNERS REGION
LEAVING FAIRLY STRONG EML/CAP INTO SW NEB WITH MAIN PCPN CHANCES IN
THE NORTHWEST.

&&

.AVIATION...

DEPARTING MCS STILL INDICATES SOME SCATTERED CONVECTION SERN PNHDL
INTO NERN CO. LIFR CIGS AT KVTN SHOULD GRADUALLY LIFT TO MVFR BY
14Z...THEN VFR BY 18Z. STRATUS NOT SETTING IN YET AT KLBF EXCEPT
FARTHER WEST IN THE CNTRL AND NRN PNHDL. EXPECT MVFR CIGS MAY SET IN
BY AROUND 12Z AND PERSIST TIL 18Z. VFR CONDITIONS FOR BOTH TERMINALS
REMAINDER OF TAF FCST PERIOD.

&&

.HYDROLOGY...

NO INDICATIONS OF ANY FLOODING FROM RECENT MCS PASSAGE. RADAR
ESTIMATED RAINFALL OF A HALF INCH TO LOCALLY TWO INCHES APPEARS HAVE
BEEN HANDLED FAIRLY WELL BY SOIL.

RECENT RAINFALL ACROSS THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN HAS RADAR
ESTIMATES OF A HALF TO THREE QUARTER OF AN INCH IN GARDEN COUNTY AND
EVEN MORE UPSTREAM IN MORRILL COUNTY WHERE AN INCH TO AS MUCH AS ONE
AND A HALF INCH ESTIMATED. RIVER STAGES AT LISCO AND LEWELLEN
CONTINUE TO RUN NEAR OR AT BANKFULL CONDITIONS. A FLOOD WARNING
CONTINUES AT LEWELLEN DESPITE A STAGE OF 7.46 FEET SLIGHTLY BELOW
THE FLOOD STAGE OF 7.5 FEET. THE CONCERN IS THAT RECENT RAINFALL
COULD EASILY PUSH STAGES UP A FEW TENTHS OF A FOOT THE NEXT FEW
DAYS. UPSTREAM GAGE READINGS SHOW A SLIGHT DROPOFF...LIKELY DUE TO
REDUCED RELEASES FROM WYOMING RESERVOIRS.

&&

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

13/KAR
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 2:12 PM MDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry, Grant, Sheridan65 min
Jun 7, 8:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry, Grant, Hooker, Thomas54 min
Jun 7, 9:04 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry, Hooker26 min
Jun 7, 9:30 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFHooker, Thomas30 min
Jun 7, 9:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Thomas54 min
Jun 7, 9:57 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLogan, Thomas33 min
Jun 7, 10:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln62 min
Jun 7, 10:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine, Custer, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, Thomas43 min
Jun 7, 10:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster50 min
Jun 7, 10:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine, Custer, Garfield, Loup58 min
Jun 7, 10:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster38 min
Jun 7, 11:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.