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Fire Weather Watch 17, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this fire weather watch at Jun 25, 2012, 3:46 PM CDT for 16 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jun 26, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2012, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 26, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2012, 4:18 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -621 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jun 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 6:34 AM CDT, 9 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 634 AM CDT MON JUN 25 2012 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-261145- 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- 634 AM CDT MON JUN 25 2012 /534 AM MDT MON JUN 25 2012/ ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 9 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON CDT /11 AM MDT/ TODAY TO 10 PM CDT /9 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INTO PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN SANDHILLS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL HELP TO PRODUCE HOT CONDITIONS WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 100 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING ACROSS FRONTIER...HAYES...AND LINCOLN COUNTY. DRY AIR WILL SPREAD INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA AND COMBINE WITH HOT TEMPERATURES AND SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH TO CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE GROWTH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AREA OF CONCERN WILL GENERALLY BE WEST OF A LINE FROM HAY SPRINGS THROUGH OGALLALA AND HAYES CENTER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. EXTREME HEAT IS EXPECTED TO SPREAD NORTHWARD TUESDAY WITH MANY LOCATIONS REACHING HIGHS ABOVE 100 DEGREES...WITH SOME AREAS EXCEEDING 105 DEGREES ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA. WIDESPREAD DANGEROUS HEAT INDEX READINGS ARE LIKELY ON TUESDAY...GENERALLY EAST OF AN IMPERIAL THROUGH CODY LINE. AREAS WEST OF THIS LINE MAY REACH CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS. LITTLE OR NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS WEEKEND...SO VERY DRY CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY AS WELL. THIS WILL BRING A CONTINUED RISK OF RANGE FIRE TO THE AREA. .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 KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:21 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 18 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:39 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Arthur, Chase, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant and 5 more | 18 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 18 more | 30 hr |
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.