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High Wind Watch 3, NWS North Platte, NE

March 17, 202515 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this high wind watch at Mar 17, 2025, 12:30 PM MDT for 15 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 18, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 17, 2025, 12:30 PM MDT (18:30 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 18, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 18, 2025, 1:37 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 394 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2025-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2025-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 572 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
572 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
596 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 17, 11:09 AM MDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 11:09 AM MDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 1:43 AM MDTRed Flag WarningLBFArthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Custer and 16 more17 hr
Mar 17, 9:01 AM MDTWinter Storm WatchLBFCuster, Frontier, Garfield, Hayes, Holt, Lincoln and 3 more17 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Nebraska, 2025Every high wind watch in 2025

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.