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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

May 25, 2016Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2016, 2:22 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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: May 25, 2016, 2:22 AM CDT (07:22 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2016, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 120 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 28 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: 1159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 May 25, 12:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 12:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 11:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 12:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 12:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 1:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 1:59 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 2:04 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 2:22 AM CDT, 0 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
May 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Deuel	45 min
May 24, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	43 min
May 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Deuel, Garden	52 min
May 24, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	39 min
May 24, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith, Perkins	42 min
May 24, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	25 min
May 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Keith, Perkins	50 min
May 24, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	24 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	31 min
May 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	46 min
May 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln, Perkins	45 min
May 24, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	30 min
May 24, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	52 min
May 24, 10:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	51 min
May 24, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	50 min
May 24, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Logan, Thomas	47 min
May 24, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	40 min
May 24, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	45 min
May 24, 11:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Blaine, Custer, Loup	52 min
May 24, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha	50 min
May 24, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	56 min
May 24, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	48 min
May 24, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	46 min
May 25, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Rock, Wheeler	61 min
May 25, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	45 min
May 25, 1:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	54 min
May 25, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins	38 min
May 25, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	46 min
May 25, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Perkins	44 min
May 25, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	46 min
May 25, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	41 min
May 25, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	46 min
May 25, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	48 min
May 25, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	38 min
May 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith, Perkins	48 min
May 25, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	43 min
May 25, 6:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase	43 min
May 25, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	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.