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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS North Platte, NE

June 26, 2023Chase County, Perkins County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2023, 11:55 PM MDT for Chase County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2023, 11:55 PM MDT (05:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2023, 1:00 AM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chase County, NE, Perkins County, NE

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 79 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 11:15 PM MDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 11:15 PM MDT, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 9:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:47 PM MDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 11:51 PM MDT, 4 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
Jun 26, 11:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Deuel	45 min
Jun 26, 11:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	73 min
Jun 27, 12:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	59 min
Jun 27, 12:57 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins	33 min
Jun 27, 1:08 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	67 min
Jun 27, 1:28 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	47 min
Jun 27, 1:41 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase, Hayes	49 min
Jun 27, 1:44 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	46 min
Jun 27, 1:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins	44 min
Jun 27, 2:27 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 27, 2:38 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	37 min
Jun 27, 3:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	50 min
Jun 27, 3:38 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Sheridan	3 hr
Jun 27, 4:07 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	53 min
Jun 27, 6:34 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keya Paha	41 min
Jun 27, 7:21 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keya Paha	39 min
Jun 27, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Garden	76 min
Jun 27, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	41 min
Jun 27, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	66 min
Jun 27, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Deuel, Garden, Keith	42 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.