Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2014, 2:01 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2014, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2014, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:00 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | Cody, NE | FLOODING IN THE CITY OF CODY. CODY PARK WAS FLOODED WITH WATER BACKING INTO THE CITY PUMP STATION. DELAYED REPORT. |
| Jun 6, 4:00 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 15 W Valentine, NE | FULL WASHOUT OF A PORTION OF GERMAN SETTLEMENT ROAD. MANY ROADS UNDERWATER WITH MULTIPLE PARTIAL WASHOUTS OF ROADS WEST OF VALENTINE. |
| Jun 6, 6:52 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 4.5 | Cody, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 585 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
941
WGUS53 KLBF 062001
FFWLBF
NEC031-070200-
/O.NEW.KLBF.FF.W.0001.140606T2001Z-140607T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
201 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 800 PM MDT/900 PM CDT/
* AT 200 PM MDT/300 PM CDT/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS
THE WARNED AREA. RADAR WAS INDICATING 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD
FALLEN IN AREAS BETWEEN MERRIMAN AND CODY WITH MORE THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER THE AREA.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CROOKSTON...ELI...KILGORE...MERRIMAN AND NENZEL.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
NIOBRARA RIVER...DRY CREEK...MINNECHADUZA CREEK...BEAR CREEK...
LEANDER CREEK...GORDON CREEK...SCHLAGEL CREEK...MEDICINE CREEK...
STEER CREEK...SNAKE RIVER...BULL CREEK AND SPRING CREEK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 4299 10061 4276 10061 4273 10128 4265 10153
4282 10191 4300 10171
$$
BROOKSThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 9:40 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | LBF | Deuel, Keith | 6 days |
| Jun 6, 11:52 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 12:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 12:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 12:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 12:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 12:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 1:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 1:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 1:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Keya Paha | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson, Thomas | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln, Perkins | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 3:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Cherry | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jun 6, 4:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Keith, Lincoln, Perkins | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 38 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.