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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS North Platte, NE

July 4, 2025Deuel County, Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2025, 8:49 PM MDT for Deuel County, Garden 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 4, 2025, 8:49 PM MDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2025, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 451 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1804 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1804 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
12.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 6:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFChase45 min
Jul 4, 6:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan51 min
Jul 4, 7:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan49 min
Jul 4, 7:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFGarden, Grant47 min
Jul 4, 8:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFArthur, Garden, Grant44 min
Jul 4, 9:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFKeith48 min
Jul 4, 10:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFKeith, Lincoln, Perkins50 min
Jul 4, 10:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan78 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.