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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

July 26, 2019Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2019, 9:13 AM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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 26, 2019, 9:13 AM MDT (15:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2019, 10:00 AM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:12 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 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -349 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 26, 5:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 5:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 2:31 AM MDT, 6 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 9:13 AM MDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service North Platte NE
1013 AM CDT Fri Jul 26 2019

NEZ005-094-261600-
Eastern Cherry NE-Western Cherry NE-
1013 AM CDT Fri Jul 26 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL
1100 AM CDT/1000 AM MDT/...

At 1012 AM CDT/912 AM MDT/, Doppler radar was tracking a strong
thunderstorm near Nenzel, or 31 miles west of Valentine, moving east
at 25 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny sized hail will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Cody, Kilgore, Nenzel and Crookston.

This includes Highway 20 between mile markers 163 and 189.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

&&

LAT...LON 4279 10070 4294 10124 4300 10124 4300 10066
TIME...MOT...LOC 1512Z 279DEG 21KT 4298 10115

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 10:02 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	43 min
Jul 26, 10:47 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	43 min
Jul 26, 1:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Grant	38 min
Jul 26, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant, Sheridan	60 min
Jul 26, 2:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Grant	46 min
Jul 26, 2:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden, Grant	63 min
Jul 26, 2:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Grant	44 min
Jul 26, 3:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	43 min
Jul 26, 3:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	55 min
Jul 26, 3:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Arthur	43 min
Jul 26, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden, Keith	60 min
Jul 26, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	53 min
Jul 26, 4:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Deuel	39 min
Jul 26, 4:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	34 min
Jul 26, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	60 min
Jul 26, 5:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	38 min
Jul 26, 5:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	LBF	Deuel	117 min
Jul 26, 5:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown	48 min

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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.