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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS North Platte, NE

May 26, 2021Chase County, Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2021, 7:04 PM MDT for Chase County, Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2021, 7:04 PM MDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2021, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chase County, NE, Hayes County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 7:05 PM MDT	HAIL 1	2 Ne Palisade, NE	REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.).
May 26, 7:18 PM MDT	HAIL 1	8 Ssw Hayes Center, NE	1 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY TRAINED SPOTTER

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 3:42 PM MDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 9.7

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The text

As transmitted.

562 
WUUS53 KLBF 270104
SVRLBF
NEC029-085-270145-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0038.210527T0104Z-210527T0145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service North Platte NE
804 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021

The National Weather Service in North Platte has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Chase County in southwestern Nebraska...
  Hayes County in southwestern Nebraska...

* Until 845 PM CDT/745 PM MDT/.

* At 804 PM CDT/704 PM MDT/, a severe thunderstorm was located over
  Enders Reservoir State Recreation Area, or 9 miles southeast of
  Imperial, moving east at 40 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Imperial, Hayes Center, Wauneta, Enders, Enders Reservoir State
  Recreation Area, Hamlet, Center Dam Campground, Marengo, Area A
  Campground, Hayes Center State Wildlife Management Area and Church
  Grove Campground.

This includes Highway 61 between mile markers 25 and 30.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT/100 AM MDT/ for
southwestern Nebraska.

LAT...LON 4035 10164 4050 10166 4067 10088 4035 10080
TIME...MOT...LOC 0104Z 256DEG 35KT 4042 10152 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

NMJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 6:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	30 min
May 26, 6:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Deuel	33 min
May 26, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	30 min
May 26, 6:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	25 min
May 26, 6:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hayes	37 min
May 26, 6:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	35 min
May 26, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	47 min
May 26, 6:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hayes	44 min
May 26, 6:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	10 hr
May 26, 6:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	48 min
May 26, 7:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	42 min
May 26, 7:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	40 min
May 26, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Perkins	32 min
May 26, 7:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson	36 min
May 26, 7:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	33 min
May 26, 7:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln, Perkins	46 min
May 26, 7:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase, Hayes	65 min
May 26, 7:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
May 26, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, Logan, McPherson, Thomas	43 min
May 26, 8:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	27 min
May 26, 8:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	49 min
May 26, 8:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	45 min
May 26, 9:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	56 min
May 26, 10:41 PM MDT	River Flood Advisory	LBF	Hayes	87 min
May 27, 12:08 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	LBF	Hayes	10 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.