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Heat Advisory 5, NWS North Platte, NE

July 31, 20118 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this heat advisory at Jul 31, 2011, 4:33 AM CDT for 8 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 31, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 2011, 4:33 AM CDT (09:33 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 31, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 31, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 290 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2011-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4943 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2011-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4943 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
961 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.7
Supercell composite
12.6

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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 Jul 31, 3:59 AM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 3:59 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 3:51 PM CDT, 12 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
351 PM CDT SAT JUL 30 2011

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-312100-
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-
351 PM CDT SAT JUL 30 2011 /251 PM MDT SAT JUL 30 2011/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ARE POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT...MAINLY WEST OF AN OGALLALA
TO VALENTINE LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE
SEVERE...HOWEVER THE STORMS WILL BE HIGH BASED...WITH GUSTY WINDS
APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS POSSIBLE FROM ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ACROSS
THE FORECAST AREA. THE FORECAST WOULD INDICATE THAT SUNDAY AND
MONDAY WILL HAVE TO POTENTIAL TO BE THE HOTTEST OF THE DAYS...WITH
HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID AND UPPER 90S. LOCALIZED TRIPLE
DIGIT READINGS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80
ON MONDAY. CORRESPONDING HEAT INDEX VALUES ALONG AND EAST OF AN
IMPERIAL TO MULLEN TO VALENTINE LINE HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO EXCEED
100 DEGREES WITH A POSSIBLE HEAT ADVISORY NEEDED...ESPECIALLY FOR MONDAY.

A RETURN TO AN ACTIVE PATTERN BEGINS LATE TUESDAY AND WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE...HOWEVER NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...
HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE

JACOBS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry50 min
Jul 31, 3:22 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryLBFBlaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 14 more29 hr

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.