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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS North Platte, NE

July 3, 2010Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2010, 5:17 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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
Jul 3, 2010, 5:17 PM MDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2010, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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
Jul 3, 2:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

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 3, 2:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
328 PM CDT SAT JUL 3 2010

.SYNOPSIS...
H5 TROUGH OVER WESTERN CONUS WITH STRONG WAVE LIFTING OUT OF THE
CENTRAL ROCKIES PER WV. AT THE SURFACE COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO
THE NORTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE WITH SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDING INTO
THE SURFACE LOW OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE NEAR TERM AND HAVE CONFIDENCE IN
THE FORECAST. ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO DESTABILIZE OVER THE
NEBRASKA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONVECTION BEGINNING TO
FIRE. BEST DYNAMICS OVER THE PANHANDLE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA THIS
EVENING FOR SEVERE THEN TRANSITIONS TO HEAVY RAIN PRODUCERS AS THE
FRONT MOVES SLOWLY EAST TONIGHT. STORM MOTION AND ABUNDANT
RAINFALL WILL COMBINE FOR SOME AREAS OF POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING
TONIGHT AND HAV ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA. FFG IS ON THE HIGH SIDE BUT SOME 2 INCH RAINFALL REPORTS
ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY TOMORRO MORNING.
SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING AND THEN A BRIEF
REPRIEVE AS THE FRONT STALLS OUT OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA KS NEBR
BORDER TOMORROW EVENING AND THEN NEXT WAVE MOVES ACROSS THE FRONT.
MAY BE SOME POTENTIAL AGAIN FOR FLASH FLOODING OVER SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA. WILL EVALUATE IN THE AM WITH FRONTAL POSITION AT THAT
TIME. COOL AND RAINY TOMORROW WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 70S
TO AROUND 80. FRONT WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER WITH
RAIN CHANCES CONTINUED OVER THE SOUTH THROUGH MONDAY. ANOTHER COLD
FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA ON TUESDAY AND BRING THE CHANCE
FOR SHOWERS AND COOLER TEMPERATURES THROUGH MID WEEK.

&&

.AVIATION...
VFR CONDITIONS BOTH KVTN AND KLBF THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING WITH
FORPA AND THUNDERSTORMS LOWERING INTO MVFR CONDITIONS TRW WINDS
AND CIGS 7Z KLBF AND 3Z KVTN.

&&

.LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL
10 PM CDT /9 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR NEZ004-005-022>024-035-056-057-094.

FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY
MORNING FOR NEZ005>010-025>029.

&&

SHORT TERM/EXTENDED...POWER
AVIATION...KECK/SCHULTZ
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 3:25 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 2:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
344 PM CDT SAT JUL 03 2010

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

0610 PM     TSTM WND DMG     7 WSW GRANT             40.81N 101.85W
07/02/2010                   PERKINS            NE   PUBLIC

            A TRAINED SPOTTER OBSERVED SEVERAL GUSTNADOES THAT DID
            DAMAGE AT THE WILSON FEED LOT. AT THE FEED LOT THE
            GUSTNADOES DESTROYED A RAISED, OPEN FACED STORAGE
            BUILDING. THE BUILDING FRAME SLAMMED INTO THE SOUTHWEST
            CORNER OF A LARGE GARAGE. DAMAGE ALSO INCLUDED DESTROYING
            AN EMPTY 1200 POUND STORAGE GRAIN BIN, MOVED A SCALE
            HOUSE BUILDING APPROXIMATELY TWO INCHES ON ITS FOUNDATION
            AND DAMAGED THE FOUNDATION TO A THIRD STORAGE BUILDING.

&&

TKECK
Local storm report, Jul 3, 4:56 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden, Grant, Sheridan57 min
Jul 2, 7:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry, Sheridan62 min
Jul 3, 2:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchLBFBlaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garfield, Holt and 5 more13 hr
Jul 3, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry, Sheridan36 min
Jul 3, 4:50 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry, Sheridan25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.