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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

July 7, 20174 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2017, 12:21 AM MDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 54 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 7, 2017, 12:21 AM MDT (06:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2017, 1:15 AM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Cherry County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, McPherson County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2017-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 571 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2017-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
571 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

861 
WWUS83 KLBF 070621
SPSLBF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service North Platte NE
121 AM CDT FRI JUL 7 2017
 
NEZ005-023-024-035-036-094-070715-
Hooker NE-Eastern Cherry NE-Grant NE-Arthur NE-McPherson NE-
Western Cherry NE-
121 AM CDT FRI JUL 7 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN ARTHUR...CENTRAL
CHERRY...GRANT...HOOKER AND WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 215 AM
CDT/115 AM MDT/...

At 120 AM CDT/1220 AM MDT/, Doppler radar was tracking strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from 7 miles northeast of
Merriman to 18 miles south of Medicine Lake to 13 miles northwest of
Arthur. Movement was east at 30 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Mullen, Arthur, Hyannis, Cody, Kilgore, Nenzel, Medicine Lake,
Whitman, Merritt Reservoir, Speckel Meir Lake, Eli, Duluth, Flatts,
Cogill Lake, Marsh Flat, Anderson Bridge State Wildlife Management
Area, Green Lake, Bourquim Hill, Indian Hill and Whitman Road
crossing the North Branch of the Middle Loup River.

This includes the following highways...
 Highway 20 between mile markers 140 and 181.
 Highway 2 between mile markers 146 and 194.
 Highway 61 between mile markers 125 and 159.
 Highway 92 between mile markers 165 and 192.
 Highway 97 between mile markers 50 and 127.

LAT...LON 4236 10062 4209 10081 4209 10085 4203 10085
      4147 10123 4164 10199 4167 10199 4247 10146
      4299 10165 4300 10085
TIME...MOT...LOC 0620Z 279DEG 26KT 4297 10156 4246 10138 4170 10189 

$$

Power

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 6:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFFrontier53 min
Jul 6, 6:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier42 min
Jul 6, 10:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan40 min
Jul 6, 10:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan49 min
Jul 6, 10:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan52 min
Jul 7, 1:37 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCherry68 min

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.