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River Flood Advisory 12, NWS North Platte, NE

August 6, 2015Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this river flood advisory at Aug 6, 2015, 8:57 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 2015, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2015, 8:53 AM CDT
In force
60 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point North Platte River at North Platte (NPTN1).

Action stage
5.5 ft
Minor stage
6 ft
Moderate stage
6.5 ft
Major stage
7 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06693000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood advisory 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 river flood advisory went out at Aug 6, 6:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 4:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
429 PM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

NEZ006-007-009-010-062215-
KEYA PAHA NE-BOYD NE-HOLT NE-ROCK NE-
429 PM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN KEYA PAHA...NORTHEASTERN
ROCK...NORTHWESTERN HOLT AND WESTERN BOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM
CDT...

AT 428 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ST. CHARLES TO 10 MILES EAST OF
SPRINGVIEW...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HULL LAKE STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...BROCKSBURG...DUSTIN...
NAPER...MARIAVILLE...MILLS...ANOKA...BUTTE...BURTON AND NETS PEAK.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 281 NEAR MILE MARKER .

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4292 9868 4267 9926 4289 9966 4300 9945
      4300 9883
TIME...MOT...LOC 2128Z 304DEG 21KT 4306 9911 4287 9955

CDC
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 5:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
513 PM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

NEZ006-007-009-010-062300-
KEYA PAHA NE-BOYD NE-HOLT NE-ROCK NE-
513 PM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL KEYA PAHA...
NORTHEASTERN ROCK...NORTHWESTERN HOLT AND SOUTHERN BOYD COUNTIES
UNTIL 600 PM CDT...

AT 512 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BUTTE TO 12 MILES NORTH OF
NEWPORT...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SPENCER...HULL LAKE STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...PARSHALL BRIDGE
STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...DUSTIN...MARIAVILLE...LYNCH...
SPENCER DAM...ANOKA...BUTTE...ANNCAR AND BRISTOW.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 281 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS  AND .

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4287 9832 4259 9902 4278 9944 4295 9883
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 283DEG 26KT 4291 9883 4278 9934

SNIVELY/COLE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 5:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFDeuel31 min
Aug 7, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFDeuel, Garden39 min
Aug 7, 6:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFDeuel30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.