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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS North Platte, NE

June 16, 2011Cherry County, Garden County, Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2011, 4:59 PM MDT for Cherry County, Garden County, Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2011, 4:59 PM MDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2011, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 80.0 mph

Counties Cherry County, NE, Garden County, NE, Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 5:35 PM MDT	HAIL 1	16 S Gordon, NE	WINDS UP TO 40 MPH.
Jun 16, 5:50 PM MDT	HAIL 1	30 Sw Merriman, NE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 16, 1:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

181 
WUUS53 KLBF 162259
SVRLBF
NEC031-069-161-170000-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0075.110616T2259Z-110617T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
459 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
  NORTHWESTERN GARDEN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA...
  SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 454 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 80 MPH.  THESE STORMS
  WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTH OF ALLIANCE
  TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALLIANCE TO 13 MILES WEST OF RICHARDSON
  LAKE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GORDON...MILES LAKE...ANTIOCH...TRALNOR LAKE...WICKSON LAKE...
  LAKESIDE...HERMAN LAKE...PATTERSON LAKE...DIAMOND LAKE...HIGHWAY
  250 CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER...ELLSWORTH...SMITH LAKE STATE
  WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...KENNEDY LAKE...WATSON LAKE...ARGO
  HILL...BILLYS LAKE...HIGHWAY 27 CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER...
  INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 27 AND MILLS ROAD...CLINTON AND HIGHWAY 87
  MILE MARKER 30.

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.

THESE STORMS HAVE EXHIBITED SOME WEAK ROTATION. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP
QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH ONE IS NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

LAT...LON 4255 10278 4290 10209 4204 10202 4184 10268
      4208 10271 4209 10275
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 269DEG 22KT 4231 10292 4205 10276
          4174 10280
WIND...HAIL 80MPH 1.75IN

$$

SPRINGER

3 follow-up statements

089 
WWUS53 KLBF 162322
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
622 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

NEC031-069-161-170000-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0075.000000T0000Z-110617T0000Z/
GARDEN NE-SHERIDAN NE-CHERRY NE-
522 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME
SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY...SHERIDAN AND NORTHWESTERN GARDEN COUNTIES UNTIL
600 PM MDT...

AT 522 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 80 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WALGREN LAKE STATE RECREATION
AREA TO LAKESIDE TO HERMAN LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GORDON...ELLSWORTH...HIGHWAY 250 CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER...
  KENNEDY LAKE...WATSON LAKE...ARGO HILL...CLINTON...HIGHWAY 27
  CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER...INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 27 AND MILLS
  ROAD...BILLYS LAKE...HIGHWAY 250 MILE MARKER 30...HIGHWAY 27 MILE
  MARKER 180...HIGHWAY 27 MILE MARKER 190...HIGHWAY 27 MILE MARKER
  200 AND HIGHWAY 20 MILE MARKER 110.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS HAVE EXHIBITED SOME WEAK ROTATION. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP
QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH ONE IS NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE... SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

LAT...LON 4255 10278 4290 10209 4204 10202 4184 10268
      4208 10271 4209 10275
TIME...MOT...LOC 2322Z 264DEG 35KT 4258 10253 4209 10232
          4195 10234
WIND...HAIL 80MPH 1.75IN

$$

SCHULTZ

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 162339
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
639 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

NEC031-069-161-170000-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0075.000000T0000Z-110617T0000Z/
GARDEN NE-SHERIDAN NE-CHERRY NE-
539 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME
SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY...SHERIDAN AND NORTHWESTERN GARDEN COUNTIES UNTIL
600 PM MDT...

AT 539 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF HIGHWAY 250
CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER TO KENNEDY LAKE TO 6 MILES NORTH OF JERRY
LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GORDON...HIGHWAY 27 CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER...INTERSECTION OF
  HIGHWAY 27 AND MILLS ROAD...BILLYS LAKE...HIGHWAY 27 MILE MARKER
  200 AND HIGHWAY 20 MILE MARKER 110.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS HAVE EXHIBITED SOME WEAK ROTATION. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP
QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH ONE IS NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE... SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

LAT...LON 4255 10278 4290 10209 4204 10202 4184 10268
      4208 10271 4209 10275
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 264DEG 35KT 4260 10230 4212 10214
          4199 10217
WIND...HAIL 80MPH 1.50IN

$$

SCHULTZ

220 
WWUS53 KLBF 170002
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
702 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

NEC031-069-161-170011-
/O.EXP.KLBF.SV.W.0075.000000T0000Z-110617T0000Z/
GARDEN NE-SHERIDAN NE-CHERRY NE-
602 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY...
SHERIDAN AND NORTHWESTERN GARDEN COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...

THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR 
PROPERTY.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
GARDEN AND SOUTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM MDT.

LAT...LON 4255 10278 4290 10209 4204 10202 4184 10268
      4208 10271 4209 10275
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 264DEG 35KT 4260 10230 4212 10214
          4199 10217

$$

SCHULTZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 3:40 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	65 min
Jun 16, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	42 min
Jun 16, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	32 min
Jun 16, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	44 min
Jun 16, 5:19 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	26 min
Jun 16, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant, Sheridan	46 min
Jun 16, 5:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	33 min
Jun 16, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	45 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.