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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

October 3, 2023Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Oct 3, 2023, 3:03 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 3, 2023, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 2023, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 40

County Frontier County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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
Oct 2, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	43 min
Oct 2, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	30 min
Oct 2, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Sheridan	20 min
Oct 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	47 min
Oct 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	40 min
Oct 2, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	30 min
Oct 2, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	29 min
Oct 2, 8:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	23 min
Oct 2, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	62 min
Oct 2, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	30 min
Oct 2, 9:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	37 min
Oct 3, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Dawson	48 min
Oct 3, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	47 min
Oct 3, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	38 min
Oct 3, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garfield	38 min
Oct 3, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer	52 min
Oct 3, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Holt	43 min
Oct 3, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Valley	53 min
Oct 3, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Wheeler	31 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.