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Dense Fog Advisory 7, NWS North Platte, NE

March 5, 20214 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this dense fog advisory at Mar 5, 2021, 3:54 AM CST for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 5, 2021, 3:54 AM CST (09:54 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 2021, 11:00 AM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Boyd County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:58 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2021-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2021-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory 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 dense fog advisory went out at Mar 5, 3:38 AM CST, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 3:38 AM CST, 16 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 4, 3:17 PM CST, 12 hours 37 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service North Platte NE
317 PM CST Thu Mar 4 2021

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-052130-
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-
317 PM CST Thu Mar 4 2021 /217 PM MST Thu Mar 4 2021/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of western and
north central Nebraska.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

Fire weather conditions will be elevated for Friday afternoon
across the eastern Panhandle with minimum humidity around 20
percent. Saturday near critical fire weather conditions possible
across all of western and north central Nebraska. Minimum RH
values around 20 percent or below. Winds out of the southwest with
gust up to 35 mph.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight.

&&

Get your weather, hydrological, and climate information at
http://www.weather.gov/northplatte

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 3:28 AM CSTFire Weather WatchLBFArthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more10 hr
Mar 5, 1:25 PM CSTRed Flag WarningLBFArthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more31 hr

Nearby

Dense Fog Advisories in Nebraska, 2021Every dense fog advisory in 2021

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.