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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Oct 3, 2016, 8:38 PM CDT for McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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
- Oct 3, 2016, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2016, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
County McPherson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Oct 3, 7:39 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 7:39 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 328 PM CDT MON OCT 3 2016 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-042030- 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- 328 PM CDT MON OCT 3 2016 /228 PM MDT MON OCT 3 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. AS A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE ALOFT BEGINS TO PUSH INTO THE REGION...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE BEGINNING THIS EVENING. THE AREA OF CONCERN WILL BE FOR AREAS WEST OF HIGHWAY 183. HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER HAZARDS. VERY STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING. THE GUSTY WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH VERY DRY AIR ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TO PRODUCE NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS GENERALLY SOUTHWEST OF A OSHKOSH TO HAYES CENTER LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA WILL SEE TEMPERATURES THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. A WIDESPREAD FROST OR FREEZE IS LIKELY WITH PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLE AND THE WESTERN SANDHILLS POSSIBLY SEEING THE FIRST HARD FREEZE OF THE SEASON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. && GET YOUR WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE)
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 3, 6:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
621 PM CDT MON OCT 03 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0615 PM TSTM WND GST SE MERRIMAN 42.92N 101.70W
10/03/2016 E70 MPH CHERRY NE TRAINED SPOTTER
ESTIMATED 65 TO 70 MPH WINDS.
&&
JGOMEZSpecial weather statement, Oct 3, 6:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 630 PM CDT MON OCT 3 2016 NEZ057>059-040015- KEITH NE-LINCOLN NE-PERKINS NE- 630 PM CDT MON OCT 3 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN KEITH...EASTERN PERKINS AND WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT/615 PM MDT/... AT 628 PM CDT/528 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTH OF SUTHERLAND TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELSIE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NORTH PLATTE...SUTHERLAND...HERSHEY...PAXTON...WALLACE...MADRID... ELSIE...DICKENS...SARBEN... SUTHERLAND RESERVOIR STATE RECREATION AREA...SOMERSET... BIG BALD HILL...GRAINTON...NEVENS...COKER...O'FALLONS AND BIRDWOOD. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS... HIGHWAY 97 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 16. INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 140 AND 177. 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. && A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT/900 PM MDT/ FOR SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4139 10069 4070 10088 4071 10158 4139 10139 TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 212DEG 43KT 4133 10107 4077 10130 MASEK
Special weather statement, Oct 3, 7:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 39 min |
| Oct 3, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Hooker | 42 min |
| Oct 3, 8:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 48 min |
| Oct 3, 8:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine | 44 min |
| Oct 3, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine, Logan, Thomas | 39 min |
| Oct 3, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Oct 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 2:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 11 days |
| Oct 4, 2:08 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | LBF | Arthur, Chase, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant and 6 more | 19 hr |
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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.