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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS North Platte, NE

May 8, 2016Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2016, 4:47 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min. 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 8, 2016, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Frontier County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 8, 4:48 PM CDTHAIL 113 Se Stockville, NEREPORT RELAYED VIA NWS HASTINGS
May 8, 4:58 PM CDTHAIL 1.2513 E Stockville, NE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2016-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2016-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 299 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

318 
WUUS53 KLBF 082147
SVRLBF
NEC063-082215-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0009.160508T2147Z-160508T2215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
447 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 446 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MEDICINE
  CREEK RESERVOIR STATE RECREATION AREA...OR 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  CURTIS...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EUSTIS AND ORAFINO. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4037 10024 4070 10028 4070 9998 4059 9998
      4044 10001 4044 10009 4037 10010
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 184DEG 30KT 4045 10015 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

SNIVELY
2 follow-up statements
927 
WWUS53 KLBF 082201
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
501 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

NEC063-082215-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160508T2215Z/
FRONTIER NE-
501 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY...

AT 500 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF MEDICINE CREEK RESERVOIR STATE RECREATION AREA...OR 21 MILES EAST
OF CURTIS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS. 

IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EUSTIS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4044 10021 4070 10027 4070 9998 4059 9998
      4049 10004 4044 10009
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 187DEG 21KT 4052 10013 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

SNIVELY
826 
WWUS53 KLBF 082213
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
513 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

NEC063-082223-
/O.EXP.KLBF.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160508T2215Z/
FRONTIER NE-
513 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4044 10021 4070 10027 4070 9998 4059 9998
      4049 10004 4044 10009
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 184DEG 30KT 4052 10013 

$$

SNIVELY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 7:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLincoln32 min
May 7, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFChase26 min
May 7, 8:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLincoln48 min
May 7, 8:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFChase50 min
May 7, 9:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFMcPherson44 min
May 8, 12:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLogan46 min
May 8, 4:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFFrontier35 min
May 8, 4:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCuster39 min
May 8, 5:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCuster24 min
May 8, 5:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCuster41 min
May 8, 5:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCuster38 min
May 8, 6:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCuster29 min
May 8, 6:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLogan22 min
May 8, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan37 min
May 8, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield, Loup31 min
May 8, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln29 min
May 8, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Cherry27 min
May 8, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster23 min
May 8, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Cherry33 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.