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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS North Platte, NE

June 13, 2011Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2011, 7:13 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2011, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2011, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Garden County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

847 
WUUS53 KLBF 140113
SVRLBF
NEC069-140200-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0063.110614T0113Z-110614T0200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
713 PM MDT MON JUN 13 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GARDEN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 710 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS
  WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BRITTON LAKE TO 5 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF RICHARDSON LAKE TO 10 MILES WEST OF INTERSECTION OF
  HIGHWAY 27 AND 9 MILE ROAD...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  OSHKOSH...DEER LAKE...DOGTOWN FLATS...INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 27
  AND 9 MILE ROAD...BLUEWATER BATTLEFIELD STATE HISTORICAL PARK...
  LEWELLEN...ASH HOLLOW STATE HISTORICAL PARK...WINDLASS HILL AND
  HIGHWAY 26 MILE MARKER 100.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 4201 10224 4192 10207 4122 10206 4122 10261
      4174 10265 4175 10267 4178 10268
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 281DEG 22KT 4184 10222 4162 10250
          4133 10250
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 1.00IN

$$

MASEK

2 follow-up statements

377 
WWUS53 KLBF 140129
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
829 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2011

NEC069-140200-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0063.000000T0000Z-110614T0200Z/
GARDEN NE-
729 PM MDT MON JUN 13 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GARDEN COUNTY
UNTIL 800 PM MDT...

AT 724 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM JERRY LAKE TO BRITTON LAKE TO 
DEER LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER 
SOUTHERN GARDEN COUNTY IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN 
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BLUEWATER BATTLEFIELD STATE HISTORICAL PARK...LEWELLEN...ASH HOLLOW
  STATE HISTORICAL PARK AND WINDLASS HILL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 4201 10224 4192 10207 4122 10206 4122 10261
      4174 10265 4175 10267 4178 10268
TIME...MOT...LOC 0129Z 274DEG 20KT 4191 10213 4180 10217
          4171 10229
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 1.75IN

$$

MASEK

215 
WWUS53 KLBF 140156
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
756 PM MDT MON JUN 13 2011

NEC069-140206-
/O.EXP.KLBF.SV.W.0063.000000T0000Z-110614T0200Z/
GARDEN NE-
756 PM MDT MON JUN 13 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GARDEN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
900 PM CDT/800 PM MDT/...

THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE
WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 4201 10224 4192 10207 4122 10206 4122 10261
      4174 10265 4175 10267 4178 10268
TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 274DEG 20KT 4190 10193 4179 10197
          4170 10209

$$

MASEK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	38 min
Jun 13, 6:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	31 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	45 min
Jun 13, 6:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	29 min
Jun 13, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	47 min
Jun 13, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	45 min
Jun 13, 7:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Grant	48 min
Jun 13, 7:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	59 min
Jun 14, 3:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha, Rock	56 min
Jun 14, 3:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	44 min
Jun 14, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	60 min
Jun 14, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	51 min
Jun 14, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.