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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE

August 5, 20226 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 5, 2022, 2:58 AM CDT for 6 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Aug 5, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2022, 2:58 AM CDT (07:58 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 5, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 5, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Rock County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning 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 excessive heat warning went out at Aug 5, 12:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 12:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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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
Aug 4, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	42 min
Aug 4, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry	36 min
Aug 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry	41 min
Aug 5, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	50 min
Aug 5, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	44 min
Aug 5, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	50 min

Nearby

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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.