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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS North Platte, NE

July 1, 2024Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2024, 4:04 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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: Jul 1, 2024, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2024, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Hayes County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 1, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -399 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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
Jul 1, 12:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	51 min
Jul 1, 3:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase, Perkins	42 min
Jul 1, 4:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Chase, Perkins	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Sheridan	41 min
Jul 1, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	42 min
Jul 1, 6:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Frontier	3 hr

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.