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Heat Advisory 1, NWS North Platte, NE

June 29, 2011Boyd County, Holt County, Wheeler County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this heat advisory at Jun 29, 2011, 3:46 PM CDT for Boyd County, Holt County, Wheeler County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jun 30, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2011, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 30, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 30, 2011, 3:34 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Boyd County, NE, Holt County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2011-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 709 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2011-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
709 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-639 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 29, 3:53 AM CDT, 11 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:53 AM CDT, 11 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden48 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Nebraska, 2011Every heat advisory in 2011

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.