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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Apr 19, 2020, 9:12 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 19, 2020, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2020, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 2264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 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 Apr 19, 6:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 6:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service North Platte NE 306 PM CDT Sun Apr 19 2020 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-202015- 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- 306 PM CDT Sun Apr 19 2020 /206 PM MDT Sun Apr 19 2020/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of western and north central Nebraska. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. Isolated thunderstorms are possible this evening across mainly southwest Nebraska and the Sandhills. While severe storms are not expected, storms that form could be capable of small hail, gusty winds to 50 mph and frequent lightning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. Warming temperatures and low afternoon humidity approaching 20 percent on Monday will combine with northwest gusts of 20-35 mph, strongest winds across north central Nebraska. This will promote elevated fire weather conditions across parts of western Nebraska Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. && Get your weather, hydrological, and climate information at http://www.weather.gov/northplatte
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 7:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 19, 7:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine, Hooker, Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Lincoln, Logan, Thomas | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 8:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Frontier | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Custer, Loup, Rock | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer, Garfield, Loup | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 3:58 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Custer, Frontier, Garfield, Holt, Lincoln, Loup and 1 more | 16 hr |
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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.