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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

June 13, 2016Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2016, 11:31 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 13, 2016, 11:31 PM MDT (05:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2016, 12:15 AM MDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.

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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: 1181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 Jun 13, 10:47 PM MDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 10:47 PM MDT, 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 5:16 PM MDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
616 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2016

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-142330-
SHERIDAN-EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-GARDEN-
GRANT-HOOKER-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-ARTHUR-MCPHERSON-
LOGAN-CUSTER-DEUEL-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN-CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER-
WESTERN CHERRY-
616 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2016 /516 PM MDT MON JUN 13 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. THE
GREATEST RISK IS SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM CODY TO BROWNLEE AND
BROKEN BOW. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE
HAIL...AND HEAVY.  HOWEVER...A TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED
OUT THIS EVENING.

MINOR TO MODERATE FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE NORTH PLATTE
RIVER FROM LEWELLEN TO NORTH PLATTE. ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS REMAIN
ON THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER NEAR LISCO...THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER
FROM ROSCOE TO NORTH PLATTE...AND THE PLATTE RIVER NEAR BRADY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE
WEATHER EXISTS FROM VALENTINE TO BROKEN BOW AND AREAS EAST...WITH
LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THE MAIN THREATS.

MINOR TO MODERATE FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE NORTH PLATTE
RIVER FROM LEWELLEN TO NORTH PLATTE. ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS REMAIN
ON THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER NEAR LISCO...THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER
FROM ROSCOE TO NORTH PLATTE...AND THE PLATTE RIVER NEAR BRADY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY WEST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 83.

&&

GET YOUR WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION AT
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE)

KECK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 11:21 PM MDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:31 PM MDT, 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
Jun 13, 6:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	51 min
Jun 13, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	45 min
Jun 13, 8:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	52 min
Jun 13, 8:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	36 min
Jun 13, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	43 min
Jun 13, 8:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	44 min
Jun 13, 11:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Cherry	3 hr
Jun 14, 12:07 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Blaine	38 min
Jun 14, 12:33 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Blaine, Logan, Loup	57 min
Jun 14, 12:36 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha	54 min
Jun 14, 1:17 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer, Garfield, Loup	58 min
Jun 14, 1:18 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keya Paha, Rock	57 min
Jun 14, 2:21 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Garfield, Holt and 4 more	54 min
Jun 14, 1:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	46 min
Jun 14, 2:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	48 min
Jun 14, 3:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown	40 min
Jun 14, 3:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keya Paha	39 min
Jun 14, 3:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown	50 min
Jun 14, 4:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Rock	45 min
Jun 14, 4:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garfield	49 min
Jun 14, 5:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Rock	41 min
Jun 14, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	31 min
Jun 14, 5:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Wheeler	43 min
Jun 14, 5:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Holt	51 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.