Alert archive / Nebraska / Fire Weather Watches in 2012
Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this fire weather watch at Jan 27, 2012, 2:54 PM MST for 5 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jan 28, 2012, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 27, 2012, 2:54 PM MST (21:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2012, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2012, 2:19 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Chase County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 2474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.