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Wind Advisory 27, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this wind advisory at May 17, 2012, 2:56 PM CDT for 6 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2012, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2012, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Boyd County, NE, Custer County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Loup County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
505 WWUS73 KLBF 171956 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 256 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WIND LIKELY LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... .A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA WILL CONTINUE TO DEEPEN THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL HELP TO GENERATE STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ADVISORY LEVEL WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE WITH THE SETTING SUN. NEZ007-010-027>029-038-180200- /O.NEW.KLBF.WI.Y.0027.120517T1956Z-120518T0200Z/ BOYD-HOLT-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-CUSTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPENCER...ONEILL...TAYLOR...BURWELL... BARTLETT...BROKEN BOW 256 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG WIND WILL CONTINUE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...THEN GRADUALLY DECREASE AFTER SUNSET. * WINDS: SUSTAINED WIND OF GREATER THAN 30 MPH...WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 40 MPH * IMPACTS: LIGHTWEIGHT AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN AND STRONG CROSS WIND ALONG EAST WEST HIGHWAYS. 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. && $$ JACOBS
1 follow-up statement
875 WWUS73 KLBF 180200 NPWLBF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 900 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NEZ007-010-027>029-038-180300- /O.EXP.KLBF.WI.Y.0027.000000T0000Z-120518T0200Z/ BOYD-HOLT-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-CUSTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPENCER...ONEILL...TAYLOR...BURWELL... BARTLETT...BROKEN BOW 900 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. WINDS OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA HAD FALLEN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA AND THE WIND ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.