Alert archive / Nebraska / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this wind advisory at Feb 20, 2011, 3:55 AM CST for Custer County, Nebraska. It took effect at Feb 20, 2011, 11:45 AM CST. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2011, 3:55 AM CST (09:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2011, 11:45 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2011, 3:02 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
388 WWUS73 KLBF 200955 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 355 AM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TO CUSTER COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .AS DEEP SURFACE LOW PRESSURE TRACKS ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA INTO IOWA TODAY...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSIST INTO THIS EVENING. NEZ038-202145- /O.NEW.KLBF.WI.Y.0005.110220T1800Z-110221T0300Z/ CUSTER- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BROKEN BOW 355 AM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS CUSTER COUNTY BY THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS: NORTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AROUND 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * IMPACTS: OPERATORS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG CROSS WINDS. LOOSE LIGHT WEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS SHOULD BE SECURED TO PREVENT THEM FROM BEING BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ KAR
2 follow-up statements
392 WWUS73 KLBF 201745 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1145 AM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TO CUSTER COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .AS DEEP SURFACE LOW PRESSURE TRACKS ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA INTO IOWA TODAY...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSIST INTO THIS EVENING. NEZ038-202200- /O.EXT.KLBF.WI.Y.0005.110220T1745Z-110221T0300Z/ CUSTER- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BROKEN BOW 1145 AM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS CUSTER COUNTY BY THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS: NORTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AROUND 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * IMPACTS: OPERATORS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG CROSS WINDS. LOOSE LIGHT WEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS SHOULD BE SECURED TO PREVENT THEM FROM BEING BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CLB
090 WWUS73 KLBF 202102 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 302 PM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON... NEZ038-202215- /O.CAN.KLBF.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-110221T0300Z/ CUSTER- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BROKEN BOW 302 PM CST SUN FEB 20 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST OF THE AREA. NORTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH...WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON. BY EVENING...WIND SPEEDS WILL DROP TO 10 TO 20 MPH. $$ CLB
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.