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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2014, 3:20 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. 4 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, 3:20 PM MDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2014, 9:30 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), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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, 3:30 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | Valentine, NE | SIGNIFICANT STREET FLOODING, WITH WATER ONTO THE SIDEWALKS THROUGHOUT TOWN. PUBLIC REPORT OF WATER TO NEAR THE COURTHOUSE FRONT DOOR AT 430 PM CDT...DUE TO STREET AND SIDEWALK BEING FLOODED. |
| Jun 6, 3:30 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | Valentine, NE | SIGNIFICANT STREET FLOODING...WITH WATER ONTO THE SIDEWALKS THROUGHOUT TOWN. PUBLIC REPORT OF WATER TO NEAR THE COURTHOUSE FRONT DOOR AT 430 PM CDT...DUE TO STREET AND SIDEWALK BEING FLOODED. |
| Jun 6, 4:55 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.57 | 4 N Valentine, NE | VERY HEAVY RAIN MEASURED BY AUTOMATED SENSORS. LOCATION IS 3.8 MILES NORTH OF MILLER FIELD IN VALENTINE. |
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 N Valentine, NE | REPORT OF A PARTIALLY WASHED OUT ROAD ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF TOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
892 WGUS53 KLBF 062120 FFWLBF NEC031-070330- /O.NEW.KLBF.FF.W.0002.140606T2120Z-140607T0330Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 420 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 419 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IS INCDICATING 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH POSSIBLE. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... VALENTINE...SMITH FALLS STATE PARK AND SPARKS. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES... FISHBERRY CREEK...NIOBRARA RIVER...MINNECHADUZA CREEK...SCHLAGEL CREEK...FAIRFIELD CREEK...CLAPP CREEK...SAND CREEK...BIG BEAVER CREEK...DRY CREEK AND SHADLEY 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 10021 4276 10021 4276 10063 4300 10063 $$ BROOKS
The 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, 2:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Cherry | 6 hr |
| 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, 3:30 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.