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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 372, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2025, 7:48 PM CDT for Blaine County, Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 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
- Sep 16, 2025, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2025, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Blaine County, NE, Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 1842 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 16, 6:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 6:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service North Platte NE 336 PM CDT Tue Sep 16 2025 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-172045- Sheridan-Eastern Cherry-Keya Paha-Boyd-Brown-Rock-Holt-Garden-Grant- Hooker-Thomas-Blaine-Loup-Garfield-Wheeler-Arthur-McPherson-Logan- Custer-Deuel-Keith-Perkins-Lincoln-Chase-Hayes-Frontier- Western Cherry- 336 PM CDT Tue Sep 16 2025 /236 PM MDT Tue Sep 16 2025/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of western and north central Nebraska. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Thunderstorms are likely tonight across all of western and north central Nebraska. Some storms may be severe with large hail, damaging wind gusts and heavy rain. A tornado or two cannot be ruled out as well over southwestern Nebraska. The main threat for severe storms tonight is along and east of a line from Gordon to Chappell. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. A long duration steady rain event is appearing probable Wednesday through early Friday. The slow rates of rainfall should limit overall flooding potential but locations could potentially see a total of one to three inches of rain by midday Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed over southwestern Nebraska, mainly east of highway 61 and south of Interstate 80. CLB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 16, 4:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service North Platte NE
457 PM CDT Tue Sep 16 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0454 PM Hail 3 NW Sarben 41.19N 101.34W
09/16/2025 M1.00 Inch Keith NE Public
Caller also reports torrential rainfall.
&&Local storm report, Sep 16, 5:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 7:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LBF | Hayes | 15 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Valley | 20 min |
| Sep 16, 9:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Garfield | 51 min |
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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.