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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

April 28, 2025Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2025, 2:11 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 2025, 2:11 PM MDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2025, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Hail
0.00 in
Wind
50

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2025-04-28Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2025-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -87 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 28, 1:37 PM MDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 1:37 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 28, 2:11 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLBFSheridan40 min
Apr 27, 6:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLBFCherry, Grant, Hooker52 min
Apr 27, 6:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLBFSheridan43 min
Apr 27, 6:28 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry, Grant47 min
Apr 27, 6:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Grant, Hooker42 min
Apr 27, 6:44 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatLBFCherry, Grant, Sheridan46 min
Apr 27, 6:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLBFSheridan41 min
Apr 27, 7:08 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry, Grant52 min
Apr 27, 7:10 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFCherry35 min
Apr 27, 7:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLBFCherry46 min
Apr 27, 7:44 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry46 min
Apr 27, 8:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan43 min
Apr 27, 8:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan23 min
Apr 27, 8:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCherry27 min
Apr 27, 8:23 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry37 min
Apr 27, 8:52 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry38 min
Apr 27, 9:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan38 min
Apr 27, 9:25 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry50 min
Apr 27, 9:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan32 min
Apr 27, 9:57 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFCherry48 min
Apr 27, 10:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan25 min
Apr 27, 10:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan43 min
Apr 27, 11:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCherry29 min
Apr 27, 11:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFCherry51 min
Apr 28, 12:09 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFBrown66 min
Apr 28, 1:33 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFBrown, Keya Paha, Rock57 min
Apr 28, 3:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLogan, Thomas38 min
Apr 28, 3:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFKeya Paha45 min
Apr 28, 4:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFBoyd26 min
Apr 28, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd19 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.