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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2017, 1:37 AM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 68 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, 1:37 AM MDT (07:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2017, 2:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 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
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 Jul 6, 10:26 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 10:26 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service North Platte NE 617 PM CDT Thu Jul 6 2017 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-072330- 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- 617 PM CDT Thu Jul 6 2017 /517 PM MDT Thu Jul 6 2017/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of western and north central Nebraska. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. Scattered strong to briefly severe thunderstorms are possible tonight across North Central Nebraska. The main threats will be damaging thunderstorm winds and lightning caused grass fires. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. Scattered strong to briefly severe thunderstorms will be possible Friday and Friday night as well, mainly north of a line from Merriman to Stapleton to North Platte. The main threats with any storms that become severe would be damaging winds, large hail and grass fires. Beyond Friday night, the pattern will bring slight chances of thunderstorms at times to western Nebraska through Tuesday, mainly in the late afternoon and early evening. At this time the threat for organized severe weather is low. Hot temperatures will settle into western and north central Nebraska next week with readings approaching 100 degrees Monday through Thursday, west of highway 83. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated through tonight. && Get your weather, hydrological, and climate information at http://www.weather.gov/northplatte
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 10:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service North Platte NE 1005 PM MDT THU JUL 6 2017 NEZ004-070445- Sheridan NE- 1005 PM MDT THU JUL 6 2017 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM MDT... At 1004 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 7 miles southwest of Slim Butte to 9 miles southeast of Flahertys Corner. Movement was east at 40 mph. Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with these storms and lightning ahead of the thunderstorms could spark a grass fire. 1/10 to 1/4 inch of rainfall is expected with the storms. Locations impacted include... Gordon, Rushville, Hay Springs, White Clay, Clinton, Intersection of Highway 87 and Craven Creek Road, Lone Butte, Intersection of Beaver Creek Road and White Clay Creek Road, Intersection of Highway 87 and Larabee Road, Mount Maria, Highway 250 crossing the Niobrara River, Walgren Lake State Recreation Area, Pine Ridge, Hoover Lake, Metcalf State Wildlife Management Area, Intersection of Highway 87 and Antelope Road and Smith Lake State Wildlife Management Area. This includes the following highways... Highway 20 between mile markers 74 and 105. Highway 250 between mile markers 28 and 48. LAT...LON 4299 10208 4228 10253 4219 10274 4300 10279 TIME...MOT...LOC 0404Z 264DEG 33KT 4298 10292 4223 10331 CDC
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 10:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 6, 6:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Frontier | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 6:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 10:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Sheridan | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 10:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 10:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Sheridan | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 12:21 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker, McPherson | 54 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.