Alert archive / Nebraska / Freeze Warnings in 2011
Freeze Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this freeze warning at Oct 18, 2011, 3:09 PM CDT for 20 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 19, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT. 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
- Oct 18, 2011, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 19, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2011, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1420 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
162 WWUS73 KLBF 182009 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 309 PM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011 ...A KILLING FREEZE EXPECTED ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY... .FREEZING TEMPERATURES IN THE MID AND UPPER 20S ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY OVER WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AFTER FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT...THE GROWING SEASON WILL HAVE OFFICIALLY ENDED. NEZ004-022>024-035-056-094-182115- /O.CAN.KLBF.FZ.A.0001.111019T0600Z-111019T1500Z/ SHERIDAN-GARDEN-GRANT-HOOKER-ARTHUR-DEUEL-WESTERN CHERRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GORDON...RUSHVILLE...OSHKOSH... HYANNIS...MULLEN...ARTHUR...CHAPPELL...BIG SPRINGS...CODY... MERRIMAN...KILGORE 209 PM MDT TUE OCT 18 2011 ...FREEZE WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZE WATCH. FREEZING TEMPERATURES OCCURRED LAST NIGHT ACROSS THE WESTERN SANDHILLS AND EASTERN PANHANDLE. THEREFORE...A FREEZE WARNING IS NO LONGER NEEDED FOR THE SEASON. $$ NEZ005>010-025>029-036>038-057>059-069>071-190900- /O.UPG.KLBF.FZ.A.0001.111019T0600Z-111019T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KLBF.FZ.W.0002.111019T0600Z-111019T1500Z/ EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP- GARFIELD-WHEELER-MCPHERSON-LOGAN-CUSTER-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN- CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VALENTINE...SPRINGVIEW...SPENCER... AINSWORTH...BASSETT...ONEILL...THEDFORD...DUNNING...TAYLOR... BURWELL...BARTLETT...TRYON...STAPLETON...BROKEN BOW...OGALLALA... GRANT...NORTH PLATTE...IMPERIAL...HAYES CENTER...CURTIS...EUSTIS 309 PM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011 /209 PM MDT TUE OCT 18 2011/ ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TO 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TO 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY. THE FREEZE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING: TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE MID AND UPPER 20S LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS: SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL KILL MOST PLANTS AND COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO HOSES ATTACHED TO FAUCETS CONNECTED TO THE HOUSE...AND ABOVE GROUND SECTIONS OF LAWN IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ KAR
3 follow-up statements
673 WWUS73 KLBF 190247 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 947 PM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011 ...TEMPERATURES TO DROP BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT... .FREEZING TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 20S TO AROUND 30 DEGREES WILL OCCUR EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING OVER WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AFTER FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT...THE GROWING SEASON WILL HAVE OFFICIALLY ENDED. NEZ005>010-025>029-036>038-057>059-069>071-191100- /O.CON.KLBF.FZ.W.0002.111019T0600Z-111019T1500Z/ EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP- GARFIELD-WHEELER-MCPHERSON-LOGAN-CUSTER-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN- CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VALENTINE...SPRINGVIEW...SPENCER... AINSWORTH...BASSETT...ONEILL...THEDFORD...DUNNING...TAYLOR... BURWELL...BARTLETT...TRYON...STAPLETON...BROKEN BOW...OGALLALA... GRANT...NORTH PLATTE...IMPERIAL...HAYES CENTER...CURTIS...EUSTIS 947 PM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011 /847 PM MDT TUE OCT 18 2011/ ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TO 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY... A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TO 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY. * TIMING: TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE MID AND UPPER 20S EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS: SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL KILL MOST PLANTS AND COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO HOSES ATTACHED TO FAUCETS CONNECTED TO THE HOUSE...AND ABOVE GROUND SECTIONS OF LAWN IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ BROOKS
252 WWUS73 KLBF 191014 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 514 AM CDT WED OCT 19 2011 ...TEMPERATURES TO DROP BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT... .AFTER WIDESPREAD FREEZING TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING...THE GROWING SEASON WILL BE ENDED. TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL AGAIN FALL TO WELL BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT. NEZ005>010-025>029-036>038-057>059-069>071-191500- /O.CON.KLBF.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-111019T1500Z/ EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP- GARFIELD-WHEELER-MCPHERSON-LOGAN-CUSTER-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN- CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VALENTINE...SPRINGVIEW...SPENCER... AINSWORTH...BASSETT...ONEILL...THEDFORD...DUNNING...TAYLOR... BURWELL...BARTLETT...TRYON...STAPLETON...BROKEN BOW...OGALLALA... GRANT...NORTH PLATTE...IMPERIAL...HAYES CENTER...CURTIS...EUSTIS 514 AM CDT WED OCT 19 2011 /414 AM MDT WED OCT 19 2011/ ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING... A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING. * TIMING: TEMPERATURES WILL RISE INTO THE MIDDLE 30S BY 10 AM MDT AND CDT. * IMPACTS: SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL KILL MOST PLANTS AND COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO HOSES ATTACHED TO FAUCETS CONNECTED TO THE HOUSE...AND ABOVE GROUND SECTIONS OF LAWN IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. EVEN COLDER TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED TONIGHT...AND SOME OF THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES THIS SEASON SO FAR ARE LIKELY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ SPRINGER
374 WWUS73 KLBF 191507 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1007 AM CDT WED OCT 19 2011 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES TO OCCUR AGAIN TONIGHT... .FREEZING TEMPERATURES OCCURRED ACROSS MUCH OF AREA THIS MORNING WITH THE GROWING SEASON ENDED. RESIDENTS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD BE AWARE HOWEVER THAT A HARD FREEZE WILL OCCUR TONIGHT AS LOWS FALL TO THE UPPER TEENS TO MID 20S. NEZ005>010-025>029-036>038-057>059-069>071-191615- /O.EXP.KLBF.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-111019T1500Z/ EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP- GARFIELD-WHEELER-MCPHERSON-LOGAN-CUSTER-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN- CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VALENTINE...SPRINGVIEW...SPENCER... AINSWORTH...BASSETT...ONEILL...THEDFORD...DUNNING...TAYLOR... BURWELL...BARTLETT...TRYON...STAPLETON...BROKEN BOW...OGALLALA... GRANT...NORTH PLATTE...IMPERIAL...HAYES CENTER...CURTIS...EUSTIS 1007 AM CDT WED OCT 19 2011 /907 AM MDT WED OCT 19 2011/ ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING... THE FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING. * TIMING: TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING HAVE RISEN TO THE MID 30S AND LOWER 40S. * IMPACTS: ALTHOUGH THE GROWING SEASON HAS ENDED...A KILLING FREEZE CAN BE EXPECTED AGAIN TONIGHT...WITH THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES THIS SEASON LIKELY. $$ KAR
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.