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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE

June 27, 2016Hooker County, Thomas County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this areal flood warning at Jun 27, 2016, 1:23 AM MDT for Hooker County, Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2016, 1:23 AM MDT (07:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2016, 7:15 AM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Hooker County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 1654 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 26, 11:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 11:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 2:08 PM MDT, 11 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
308 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2016

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-272015-
SHERIDAN-EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-GARDEN-
GRANT-HOOKER-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-ARTHUR-MCPHERSON-
LOGAN-CUSTER-DEUEL-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN-CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER-
WESTERN CHERRY-
308 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2016 /208 PM MDT SUN JUN 26 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS
EVENING WEST OF A LINE FROM CODY TO THEDFORD... STAPLETON...NORTH
PLATTE AND HAYES CENTER. THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORM WILL BE HIGH
BASED AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO EXTREME NORTHERN NEBRASKA THIS
EVENING AND BE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL GENERAL THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT.

ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER
AT LEWELLEN THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AT THIS TIME...NO FLOODING IS
EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL COMMENCE THIS WEEK ACROSS THE
OUTLOOK AREA AS A FRONT STALLS OVER THE PLAINS.

THE FRONT WILL BACK WEST TO THE HIGH PLAINS AND BE THE FOCUS FOR
CONVECTION EACH DAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA MONDAY. THE SLIGHT RISK
WILL EXPAND FURTHER EAST TO INCLUDE AREAS GENERALLY WEST OF
HIGHWAY 83 ON TUESDAY. THE PRIMARY IMPACTS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE.

BY MID WEEK THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT TO
LATE NIGHT AND OVERNIGHT CONVECTION WHERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD
EVOLVE INTO COMPLEXES THAT MAY BRING HEAVY RAINFALL TO SOME
LOCATIONS OVERNIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. THE STAGNANT PATTERN
WILL KEEP THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH SATURDAY.

ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER
AT LEWELLEN. AT THIS TIME...NO FLOODING IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

GET YOUR WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION AT
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE)

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 9:46 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:59 PM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:22 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 6:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	40 min
Jun 26, 6:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	37 min
Jun 26, 6:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Grant	40 min
Jun 26, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, McPherson	65 min
Jun 26, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	60 min
Jun 26, 7:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Grant	29 min
Jun 26, 8:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hooker	32 min
Jun 26, 8:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	63 min
Jun 26, 9:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 26, 9:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hooker	49 min
Jun 26, 9:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Logan	29 min
Jun 26, 9:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	46 min
Jun 27, 1:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	44 min
Jun 27, 1:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	24 min
Jun 27, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	47 min
Jun 27, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	36 min
Jun 27, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	48 min
Jun 27, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	23 min
Jun 27, 2:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	23 min
Jun 27, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden	29 min
Jun 27, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	47 min
Jun 27, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	34 min
Jun 27, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Perkins	61 min
Jun 27, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	65 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.