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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS North Platte, NE

March 5, 201224 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this fire weather watch at Mar 5, 2012, 3:26 PM MST for 24 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 6, 2012, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2012, 3:26 PM MST (22:26 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 6, 2012, 10:00 AM MST
Expired: Mar 5, 2012, 7:06 PM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

All 24 counties

Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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.

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 Mar 4, 4:52 PM MST, 22 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 4:52 PM MST, 22 hours 34 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 11:40 AM MST	Red Flag Warning	LBF	Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Deuel, Garden and 9 more	6 hr

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in Nebraska, 2012 Every fire weather watch in 2012

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.