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Winter Weather Advisory 1, NWS North Platte, NE

January 22, 201212 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 22, 2012, 4:12 AM CST for 12 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jan 22, 2012, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 22, 2012, 4:12 AM CST (10:12 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 22, 2012, 6:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 22, 2012, 9:09 PM CST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Loup County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:10 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 316 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2012-01-22Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2012-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 420 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
420 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
474 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 3:56 AM CSTHigh Wind WarningLBFArthur, Chase, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Hayes and 2 more14 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Nebraska, 2012Every winter weather advisory 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.