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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

April 26, 2016Deuel County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2016, 1:23 AM MDT for Deuel County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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: Apr 26, 2016, 1:23 AM MDT (07:23 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2016, 2:15 AM MDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

County Deuel County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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 152 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 25, 10:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 10:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 7:46 PM MDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 1:23 AM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
123 AM MDT TUE APR 26 2016

NEZ022-056-260815-
GARDEN NE-DEUEL NE-
123 AM MDT TUE APR 26 2016

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

AT 123 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
OVID...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JULESBURG...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHAPPELL...OSHKOSH...LEWELLEN...BARTON...INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 27 AND 9
MILE ROAD...BLUEWATER BATTLEFIELD STATE HISTORICAL PARK...MOUNT VERNON
AND ASH HOLLOW STATE HISTORICAL PARK.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
 HIGHWAY 92 NEAR MILE MARKER 115.
 INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 80 AND 101.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4151 10259 4153 10206 4100 10218 4100 10258
TIME...MOT...LOC 0723Z 185DEG 45KT 4093 10244

CDC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 2:40 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase	50 min
Apr 26, 2:57 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase, Perkins	48 min
Apr 26, 3:39 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase	51 min
Apr 26, 4:13 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hayes	47 min
Apr 26, 4:49 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	41 min
Apr 26, 5:27 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Logan	48 min
Apr 26, 5:57 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Logan, Thomas	48 min
Apr 26, 6:35 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Blaine, Custer	40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.