Alert archive / Nebraska / Special Weather Statements in 2016

Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

May 28, 2016Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2016, 6:21 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 28, 2016, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2016, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

County Garden County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 00:00Z on 2016-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2016-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

023 
WWUS83 KLBF 290021
SPSLBF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
621 PM MDT SAT MAY 28 2016
 
NEZ022-023-035-290100-
GARDEN NE-GRANT NE-ARTHUR NE-
621 PM MDT SAT MAY 28 2016

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

AT 621 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
CRESCENT LAKE NWR...OR 24 MILES NORTH OF OSHKOSH...MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CRESCENT LAKE NWR...BRITTON LAKE...DOGTOWN FLATS...DEER LAKE...BOURQUIM
HILL...MUMPER...SWEDE LAKE...ADAMS FLATS AND RACKETT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 4166 10259 4184 10255 4190 10182 4140 10193
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 277DEG 28KT 4175 10247 

$$

POWER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFArthur42 min
May 28, 8:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCuster48 min
May 29, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier28 min
May 29, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier, Lincoln29 min
May 29, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase31 min
May 29, 5:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln34 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nebraska, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016

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.