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High Wind Watch 5, NWS North Platte, NE

May 8, 20227 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this high wind watch at May 8, 2022, 1:02 PM MDT for 7 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at May 9, 2022, 8:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2022, 1:02 PM MDT (19:02 UTC)
In effect from: May 9, 2022, 8:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 9, 2022, 1:42 AM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Arthur County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2184 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 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 high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at May 8, 11:46 AM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 11:46 AM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 10:08 AM MDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 9:11 AM MDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 9:41 AM MDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 10:36 AM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 12:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 8, 12:29 PM MDT, 33 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
May 7, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Hooker, McPherson	59 min
May 7, 6:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hooker	47 min
May 7, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Arthur, McPherson	50 min
May 7, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Rock	65 min
May 7, 6:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Boyd	43 min
May 7, 6:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	43 min
May 7, 6:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Thomas	46 min
May 7, 7:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	McPherson	48 min
May 7, 7:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	McPherson	32 min
May 7, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Logan, Thomas	40 min
May 7, 7:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	27 min
May 7, 7:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Perkins	45 min
May 7, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer, Logan, Thomas	48 min
May 7, 7:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Boyd	62 min
May 7, 7:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Logan	31 min
May 7, 8:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown	56 min
May 7, 8:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	21 min
May 7, 8:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	38 min
May 7, 8:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Loup	64 min
May 7, 8:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	46 min
May 7, 9:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hayes	48 min
May 7, 9:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer	16 min
May 7, 9:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	44 min
May 7, 9:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer	43 min
May 7, 10:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer	27 min
May 7, 10:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	40 min
May 7, 10:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garfield, Wheeler	33 min
May 7, 10:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	19 min
May 7, 10:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer	29 min
May 7, 10:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	33 min

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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.