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Winter Storm Watch 8, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this winter storm watch at Apr 15, 2013, 2:52 AM MDT for 13 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Apr 16, 2013, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2013, 2:52 AM MDT (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2013, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2013, 10:08 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 2438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 578 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Apr 15, 2:33 AM MDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 2:33 AM MDT, 19 minutes before
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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.