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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Jul 30, 2016, 6:24 AM CDT for Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 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 30, 2016, 6:24 AM CDT (11:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2016, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
County Loup County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:25 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 30, 6:21 AM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 6:21 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 451 AM CDT SAT JUL 30 2016 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-311000- 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- 451 AM CDT SAT JUL 30 2016 /351 AM MDT SAT JUL 30 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE AREA OF CONCERN IS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE TO SARGENT. STORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED NEAR OR OVER THE BLACK HILLS AND THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE ARE THE THREAT IN MOST AREAS. VERY LARGE HAIL...2 INCHES OR LARGER...IS POSSIBLE ACROSS SHERIDAN COUNTY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS LOW BUT AN ISOLATED STORM COULD BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE. HEAT WAVE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH HEAT INDICES RISING INTO THE UPPER 90S TO NEAR 100. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. && GET YOUR WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE)
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:32 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 532 AM CDT SAT JUL 30 2016 NEZ008-009-301130- BROWN NE-ROCK NE- 532 AM CDT SAT JUL 30 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN BROWN AND SOUTHERN ROCK COUNTIES UNTIL 630 AM CDT... AT 530 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF JOHNSTOWN TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LONG PINE...ANTELOPE PEAK... KELLER PARK STATE RECREATION AREA AND TWIN LAKES STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS... HIGHWAY 183 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 160 AND 174...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 194 AND 203. HIGHWAY 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 242 AND 254. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 4274 9982 4220 9926 4212 9937 4268 10002 TIME...MOT...LOC 1030Z 317DEG 12KT 4267 9995 4222 9942 CDC
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 6:24 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 5:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Brown | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 5:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Rock | 58 min |
| Jul 30, 6:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Rock | 116 min |
| Jul 30, 7:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 60 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.