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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 3:03 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2015, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2015, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 983 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
362 WWUS83 KLBF 042003 SPSLBF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 303 PM CDT TUE AUG 4 2015 NEZ071-042045- FRONTIER NE- 303 PM CDT TUE AUG 4 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM CDT... AT 302 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR STOCKVILLE...OR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CURTIS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ORAFINO...DANCING LEAF EARTH LODGE...STOCKVILLE...EUSTIS AND MOOREFIELD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 4044 10048 4069 10050 4070 9998 4044 9999 TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 268DEG 28KT 4056 10027 $$ JWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 11:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Keya Paha | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 12:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 66 min |
| Aug 4, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 3:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 96 min |
| Aug 4, 10:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Keith | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 11:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Deuel | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 12:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 12:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 2:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Frontier, Hayes | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Lincoln | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.