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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2023, 3:56 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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
- May 5, 2023, 3:56 PM MDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2023, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 5, 1:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 1:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 4, 6:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Deuel | 39 min |
| May 4, 6:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine | 29 min |
| May 4, 6:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | McPherson | 46 min |
| May 4, 6:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Holt | 44 min |
| May 4, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 38 min |
| May 4, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock | 46 min |
| May 4, 7:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine | 41 min |
| May 4, 7:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Rock | 38 min |
| May 4, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant, McPherson | 50 min |
| May 4, 7:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Loup | 45 min |
| May 4, 7:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine | 44 min |
| May 4, 7:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Garfield | 42 min |
| May 4, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 44 min |
| May 4, 8:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Thomas | 44 min |
| May 4, 8:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Blaine, Loup | 42 min |
| May 4, 9:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer, Logan, Loup | 67 min |
| May 4, 9:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Hayes | 30 min |
| May 4, 9:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 35 min |
| May 4, 10:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 62 min |
| May 4, 10:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer | 59 min |
| May 4, 11:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Dawson | 60 min |
| May 5, 12:29 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer | 46 min |
| May 5, 3:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Sheridan | 39 min |
| May 5, 4:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Cherry | 52 min |
| May 5, 4:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Sheridan | 40 min |
| May 5, 5:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Garden | 39 min |
| May 5, 5:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Frontier | 43 min |
| May 5, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 40 min |
| May 5, 5:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Perkins | 47 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.