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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS North Platte, NE

June 16, 2011Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2011, 9:47 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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 16, 2011, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2011, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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 16, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 1720 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

150 
WUUS53 KLBF 170247
SVRLBF
NEC111-170330-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0089.110617T0247Z-110617T0330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
947 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 946 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12
  MILES NORTHEAST OF BRADY TO 6 MILES WEST OF LAKE MALONEY STATE
  RECREATION AREA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NORTH PLATTE...HIGHWAY 83 MILE MARKER 90...HIGHWAY 83 MILE MARKER
  100 AND HIGHWAY 97 MILE MARKER 10.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE
HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE
TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 4140 10109 4139 10024 4106 10024 4098 10084
TIME...MOT...LOC 0247Z 172DEG 13KT 4119 10026 4107 10088
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

CJS

2 follow-up statements

759 
WWUS53 KLBF 170258
SVSLBF

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

NEC111-170330-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0089.000000T0000Z-110617T0330Z/
LINCOLN NE-
958 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN
LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM CDT...

AT 957 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 
THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES SOUTH
OF ARNOLD TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...MOVING NORTH AT 15
MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NORTH PLATTE...HIGHWAY 83 MILE MARKER 90...HIGHWAY 83 MILE MARKER
  100 AND HIGHWAY 97 MILE MARKER 10.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR
LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 4140 10109 4139 10024 4106 10024 4098 10084
TIME...MOT...LOC 0258Z 172DEG 13KT 4128 10025 4109 10088
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

SCHULTZ

976 
WWUS53 KLBF 170333
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1033 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

NEC111-170343-
/O.EXP.KLBF.SV.W.0089.000000T0000Z-110617T0330Z/
LINCOLN NE-
1033 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
HAS EXPIRED...

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH
OF THE REST OF LINCOLN CUNTY UNTIL 1115 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 4140 10109 4139 10024 4106 10024 4098 10084
TIME...MOT...LOC 0258Z 172DEG 13KT 4128 10025 4109 10088

$$

CJS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant	52 min
Jun 16, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Cherry	5 hr
Jun 16, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	45 min
Jun 16, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	40 min
Jun 16, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant, Hooker, McPherson	50 min
Jun 16, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	42 min
Jun 16, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker, Thomas	60 min
Jun 16, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden, Keith, Perkins	48 min
Jun 16, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Thomas	51 min
Jun 16, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln, Perkins	64 min
Jun 16, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Loup, Rock and 1 more	66 min
Jun 16, 10:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Custer, Keith, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Perkins	4 hr
Jun 16, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	65 min
Jun 16, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.