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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

June 15, 2020Blaine County, Thomas County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2020, 1:08 AM CDT for Blaine County, Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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
Jun 15, 2020, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2020, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Blaine County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 329 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2020-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 172 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2020-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFHooker43 min
Jun 14, 8:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFArthur37 min
Jun 14, 8:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFThomas32 min
Jun 14, 8:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFMcPherson23 min
Jun 14, 8:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFArthur32 min
Jun 14, 9:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFGrant24 min
Jun 14, 11:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFKeith54 min
Jun 14, 11:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFMcPherson48 min
Jun 15, 12:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFMcPherson, Thomas48 min
Jun 15, 2:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFMcPherson34 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nebraska, 2020Every special weather statement in 2020

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.