Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 2016, 6:10 PM CDT for Boyd County, Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2016, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2016, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Boyd County, NE, Holt County, NE
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:30 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 7 Ese Spencer, NE | LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTING WATER FLOWING OVER SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS SOUTHEAST OF SPENCER. |
| May 9, 9:35 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Bristow, NE | 2-3 FOOT WASHOUT SECTIONS ALONG GRAVEL ROADS NEAR BRISTOW, SOME ROADS COMPLETELY WATER COVERED |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
259
WGUS53 KLBF 092310
FFWLBF
NEC015-089-100515-
/O.NEW.KLBF.FF.W.0001.160509T2310Z-160510T0515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
610 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
EASTERN BOYD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT TUESDAY
* AT 607 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. AROUND TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SPENCER...BUTTE...LYNCH...GROSS...BRISTOW...ANOKA...SPENCER DAM...ANNCAR
AND REDBIRD STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 281 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 201 AND 223.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
&&
LAT...LON 4294 9846 4292 9842 4271 9840 4270 9882
4300 9886 4300 9850
$$
BUTTLER1 follow-up statement
204
WGUS73 KLBF 100142
FFSLBF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
842 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016
NEC015-089-100515-
/O.CON.KLBF.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160510T0515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
HOLT NE-BOYD NE-
842 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
TUESDAY FOR NORTHEASTERN HOLT AND EASTERN BOYD COUNTIES...
AT 838 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. MANY COUNTY ROADS HAVE WATER FLOWING OVER
THEM. FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN...AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE
TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE. FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY
OCCURRING.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SPENCER...BUTTE...LYNCH...GROSS...BRISTOW...ANOKA...SPENCER DAM...ANNCAR AND
REDBIRD STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA.
THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 281 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 201 AND 223.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 4294 9846 4292 9842 4271 9840 4270 9882
4300 9886 4300 9850
$$
TAYLORThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Frontier | 39 min |
| May 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Holt | 40 min |
| May 8, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 46 min |
| May 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 30 min |
| May 8, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 39 min |
| May 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 31 min |
| May 8, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 25 min |
| May 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln | 38 min |
| May 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 34 min |
| May 8, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 30 min |
| May 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 31 min |
| May 9, 12:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LBF | Garden | 27 days |
| May 9, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Boyd | 48 min |
| May 9, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Boyd | 45 min |
| May 9, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Hooker | 43 min |
| May 9, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Logan | 45 min |
| May 9, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, McPherson | 39 min |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.