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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 13, 2016, 10:18 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 13, 2016, 10:18 PM CDT (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2016, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 13, 6:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 6:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 335 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 2016 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-142045- 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- 335 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 2016 /235 PM MDT SAT AUG 13 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. A STRONG STORM CAPABLE OF SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS IS POSSIBLE, BUT THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY AND INTO TUESDAY. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && GET YOUR WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE) MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 5:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 543 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 2016 NEZ071-132315- FRONTIER NE- 543 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN FRONTIER COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 543 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CULBERTSON...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCOOK... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WILLOW VIEW CAMPGROUND...BLUEGILL HAVEN CAMPGROUND AND RED WILLOW RESERVOIR STATE RECREATION AREA. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 83 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 27 AND 30. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 4044 10076 4038 10053 4035 10057 4035 10076 TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 300DEG 9KT 4036 10073 CDC
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
519 PM MDT SAT AUG 13 2016
NEZ056-140000-
DEUEL NE-
519 PM MDT SAT AUG 13 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN DEUEL COUNTY UNTIL
600 PM MDT...
AT 518 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
OVID...OR NEAR CHAPPELL...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
1 INCH OF RAINFALL...NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS OF 40 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHAPPELL AND BARTON.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 85 AND
103.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4111 10246 4110 10226 4102 10213 4100 10219
4100 10255 4101 10256
TIME...MOT...LOC 2318Z 257DEG 7KT 4101 10245
CDCLocal storm report, Aug 13, 6:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 11:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Lincoln | 43 min |
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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.