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High Wind Warning 1, NWS North Platte, NE

October 11, 20154 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this high wind warning at Oct 11, 2015, 4:32 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 101 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 11, 2015, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2015, 6:13 PM CDT
In force: 101 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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
Oct 11, 5:22 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 51	7 Nw Ainsworth, NE	AINSWORTH AWOS RECORDED A PEAK WIND GUST OF 51 MPH.

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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

624 
WWUS73 KLBF 112132
NPWLBF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
432 PM CDT SUN OCT 11 2015

...HIGH WINDS LIKELY INTO EARLY THIS EVENING...

.STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN
BE EXPECTED INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.

NEZ005>008-094-120100-
/O.NEW.KLBF.HW.W.0001.151011T2132Z-151012T0100Z/
EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-WESTERN CHERRY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPARKS...VALENTINE...SPRINGVIEW...
SPENCER...BUTTE...LYNCH...AINSWORTH...CODY...ELI...MERRIMAN...
KILGORE
432 PM CDT SUN OCT 11 2015 /332 PM MDT SUN OCT 11 2015/

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS
EVENING. 

* TIMING: NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND A COLD FRONT WILL REMAIN STRONG
  INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.

* WINDS: NORTHWEST AT 40 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. 

* IMPACTS: THESE STRONG WINDS COULD CREATE A HAZARD TO MOTORISTS
  ON ROADWAYS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

&&

$$

KAR

1 follow-up statement

924 
WWUS73 KLBF 112313
NPWLBF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
613 PM CDT SUN OCT 11 2015

NEZ005>008-094-120015-
/O.CAN.KLBF.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-151012T0100Z/
EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-WESTERN CHERRY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPARKS...VALENTINE...SPRINGVIEW...
SPENCER...BUTTE...LYNCH...AINSWORTH...CODY...ELI...MERRIMAN...
KILGORE
613 PM CDT SUN OCT 11 2015 /513 PM MDT SUN OCT 11 2015/

...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS CANCELLED THE
HIGH WIND WARNING. 

NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT HAVE SUBSIDED.
THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

$$

KAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 10, 8:33 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	LBF	Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more	24 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Nebraska, 2015 Every high wind warning in 2015

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.