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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

July 18, 2016Deuel County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2016, 7:41 PM MDT for Deuel County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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: Jul 18, 2016, 7:41 PM MDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2016, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

County Deuel County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 2929 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.8

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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 Jul 18, 5:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 5:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 3:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
400 PM CDT MON JUL 18 2016

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-192100-
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-
400 PM CDT MON JUL 18 2016 /300 PM MDT MON JUL 18 2016/

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN AND NORTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH
DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

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

HOT TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE
COMBINATION OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY COULD LEAD TO AFTERNOON HEAT
INDEX READINGS OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT.

&&

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

TAYLOR

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 6:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 6:43 PM MDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 7:01 PM MDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 7:33 PM MDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 7:41 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
Jul 18, 6:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	40 min
Jul 18, 6:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	47 min
Jul 18, 7:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	44 min
Jul 18, 7:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	42 min
Jul 18, 8:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Arthur, Deuel	33 min
Jul 18, 8:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	58 min
Jul 18, 9:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	49 min
Jul 18, 9:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase, Perkins	44 min
Jul 18, 10:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	44 min
Jul 18, 11:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	57 min
Jul 19, 1:28 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Boyd, Keya Paha	32 min
Jul 19, 3:11 AM MDT	Heat Advisory	LBF	Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more	5 days
Jul 19, 11:11 AM MDT	River Flood Advisory	LBF	Lincoln	36 hr
Jul 19, 2:15 PM MDT	Excessive Heat Warning	LBF	Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Frontier and 11 more	4 days

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.