Alert archive / Nebraska / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2015, 4:57 PM MDT for Deuel County, Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 93 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 5, 2015, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS83 KLBF 052257
SPSLBF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
457 PM MDT WED AUG 5 2015
NEZ022-056-060030-
DEUEL NE-GARDEN NE-
457 PM MDT WED AUG 5 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DEUEL AND GARDEN COUNTIES UNTIL
630 PM MDT...
AT 456 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SOUTH BAYARD JUNCTION
TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEETZ...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
THESE STORMS COULD REACH WESTERN GARDEN AND DEUEL COUNTIES AROUND 6
PM MDT. WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS IF THEY MAINTAIN STRENGTH. A WIND GUST TO 53 MPH WAS RECORDED
AT KIMBLE AT 415 PM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TRALNOR LAKE...OSHKOSH...CHAPPELL...INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 27 AND 9
MILE ROAD...BRITTON LAKE...RICHARDSON LAKE...GOLDENEYE STATE WILDLIFE
MANAGEMENT AREA...MUMPER...MOUNT VERNON...BIG SPRINGS...LEWELLEN...
ADAMS FLATS...RACKETT...ASH HOLLOW STATE HISTORICAL PARK...CRESCENT
LAKE NWR...BLUEWATER BATTLEFIELD STATE HISTORICAL PARK...BARTON...
WINDLASS HILL...DOGTOWN FLATS AND DEER LAKE.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
HIGHWAY 92 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 115 AND 117.
INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 78 AND 107.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 4192 10208 4100 10206 4100 10261 4139 10261
4140 10264 4174 10264 4175 10267 4177 10268
4191 10268
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 273DEG 28KT 4172 10325 4104 10324
$$
CDCThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:58 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | LBF | Lincoln | 36 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:15 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Chase, Custer, Frontier, Grant and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Deuel, Garden | 82 min |
| Aug 5, 5:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Sheridan | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.