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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS North Platte, NE

July 19, 20199 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 19, 2019, 9:58 AM CDT for 9 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 19, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2019, 9:58 AM CDT (14:58 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 19, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 19, 2019, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Custer County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Loup County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:55 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 358 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2019-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1287 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2019-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-248 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
436 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.9

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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.