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High Wind Watch 1, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this high wind watch at Mar 13, 2025, 2:13 AM MDT for 15 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 14, 2025, 8:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2025, 2:13 AM MDT (08:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2025, 8:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2025, 12:46 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 310 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
- 2409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Mar 12, 11:52 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 11:52 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 12:46 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | LBF | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Frontier, Garfield and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:46 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 40 hr |
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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.