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High Wind Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE

May 6, 2024Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this high wind warning at May 6, 2024, 12:07 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 6, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 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
May 6, 2024, 12:07 PM MDT (18:07 UTC)
In effect from
May 6, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Expired
May 7, 2024, 6:00 AM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

County Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2024-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2024-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 199 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

203 
WWUS73 KLBF 061807
NPWLBF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service North Platte NE
107 PM CDT Mon May 6 2024

NEZ004-071200-
/O.NEW.KLBF.HW.W.0003.240507T0000Z-240507T1200Z/
Sheridan-
Including the cities of Rushville and Gordon
1207 PM MDT Mon May 6 2024

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM MDT 
TUESDAY...

* WHAT...West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph expected.

* WHERE...Sheridan County.

* WHEN...From 6 PM this evening to 6 AM MDT Tuesday.

* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. 
  Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, 
  especially for high profile vehicles.

$$

Buttler
1 follow-up statement
534 
WWUS73 KLBF 071209
NPWLBF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service North Platte NE
709 AM CDT Tue May 7 2024

NEZ004-071315-
/O.EXP.KLBF.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-240507T1200Z/
Sheridan-
Including the cities of Rushville and Gordon
609 AM MDT Tue May 7 2024

...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

The threat of high winds has ended in this area. The High Wind 
Warning has been allowed to expire.

$$

CDC

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 11:09 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLincoln51 min
May 6, 2:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFBrown37 min
May 6, 2:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFKnox24 min
May 6, 3:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFBrown40 min
May 6, 3:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFHolt64 min
May 6, 3:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFBlaine39 min
May 6, 3:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFBlaine41 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.