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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 325, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2010, 8:54 PM MDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 3, 2010, 8:54 PM MDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2010, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Chase County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 2208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
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 Aug 3, 8:03 PM MDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 8:03 PM MDT, 51 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 334 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 2010 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-042045- 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- 334 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 2010 /234 PM MDT TUE AUG 3 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND INTO NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH THIS EVENING...AND SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH A PRIMARY THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE IS ALSO POSSIBLE. OTHER STORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA AND MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. THOSE STORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...AND AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THAT ACTIVITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE CURRENTLY EXPECTED SINCE ONLY WEAK WEATHER SYSTEMS WILL BE IN THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED IN A FEW CASES THROUGH TONIGHT...MAINLY OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH THE EVENING. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE SCHULTZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:37 PM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 337 PM MDT TUE AUG 3 2010 NEZ004-032215- SHERIDAN NE- 337 PM MDT TUE AUG 3 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM MDT... AT 336 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 87 AND CRAVEN CREEK ROAD TO 16 MILES WEST OF INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 87 AND ANTELOPE ROAD...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... HAY SPRINGS... RUSHVILLE... GORDON... METCALF STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA... WALGREN LAKE STATE RECREATION AREA... CLINTON... HOOVER LAKE... THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SCHULTZ
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 6:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 8:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 44 min |
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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.