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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS North Platte, NE

July 7, 2024Wheeler County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2024, 3:17 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 20 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 7, 2024, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2024, 3:37 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -282 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jul 6, 3:47 PM CDT, 23 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:47 PM CDT, 23 hours 30 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
Jul 6, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Grant, Hooker	30 min
Jul 6, 9:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Grant	51 min
Jul 6, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant, Hooker, McPherson	40 min
Jul 6, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Arthur	29 min
Jul 6, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Arthur	61 min
Jul 7, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown	63 min
Jul 7, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Wheeler	68 min
Jul 7, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Wheeler	58 min
Jul 7, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garfield	44 min
Jul 7, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Wheeler	41 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.