Alert archive / Nebraska / Winter Storm Watches in 2018
Winter Storm Watch 6, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this winter storm watch at Mar 14, 2018, 2:31 AM MDT for Cherry County, Sheridan County, Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 15, 2018, 11:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2018, 2:31 AM MDT (08:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2018, 11:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2018, 2:36 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Cherry County, NE, Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.