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Winter Weather Advisory 13, NWS North Platte, NE

April 14, 201113 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this winter weather advisory at Apr 14, 2011, 4:05 AM CDT for 13 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Apr 14, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 14, 2011, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 14, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 15, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Boyd County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Loup County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 309 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2011-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2011-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 266 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
650 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Apr 13, 4:04 PM CDT, 12 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 4:04 PM CDT, 12 hours 1 minute before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 3:55 PM CDT, 12 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
355 PM CDT WED APR 13 2011

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-142100-
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-
355 PM CDT WED APR 13 2011 /255 PM MDT WED APR 13 2011/

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

A POWERFUL SPRING STORM WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS
THURSDAY AND TRACK SLOWLY EAST TOWARD THE MIDWEST DURING THE DAY
FRIDAY. HEAVY RAIN...SNOW AND HIGH WINDS COULD DEVELOP THURSDAY
IN THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND SPREAD SLOWLY EAST THROUGH
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY.

THE LATEST DATA INDICATE NORTHWESTERN AND PORTIONS OF NORTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA AS THE MOST LIKELY AREA TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY
SNOW BEGINNING LATE THURSDAY AND CONTINUING INTO FRIDAY MORNING.
SNOWFALL IN EXCESS OF 6 INCHES IS LIKELY...WITH ONE FOOT POSSIBLE.

STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE REGION IN THE
COLD AIR WEST OF A RAIN SNOW LINE STRETCHING NORTH AND SOUTH
THROUGH NEBRASKA. THE RAIN SNOW LINE WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST
THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY.

THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS COULD POTENTIALLY
PRODUCE NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS THURSDAY NIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF
NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. SNOWFALL RATES COULD EXCEED 1 INCH PER
HOUR AND MIGHT REACH 2 INCHES PER HOUR.

RAIN AND SNOW MELT WILL LIKELY EXCEED 1 INCH AND COULD APPROACH 2
INCHES IN MANY AREAS. LOCALLY 3 INCHES IS POSSIBLE...WITH THE BEST
CHANCE FOR THIS OVER SOUTHWEST OR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG AND EAST OF THE RAIN
SNOW LINE ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. AN ISOLATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM COULD DEVELOP CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

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

MASEK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 3:09 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningLBFArthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Deuel and 13 more24 hr
Apr 14, 6:34 PM CDTBlizzard WarningLBFArthur, Chase, Hayes, Keith, Lincoln, Logan and 2 more16 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Nebraska, 2011Every winter weather 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.