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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

July 23, 2025Rock County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2025, 6:21 PM CDT for Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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: Jul 23, 2025, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 50

County Rock County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 312 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1911 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 Jul 23, 6:09 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 6:09 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 3:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service North Platte NE
329 PM CDT Wed Jul 23 2025

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-242030-
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-
329 PM CDT Wed Jul 23 2025 /229 PM MDT Wed Jul 23 2025/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of western and north
central Nebraska.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Thunderstorms will continue this evening into the night, with the
main threats of damaging wind gusts and heavy rainfall, mostly east
of Highway 83.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Isolated thunderstorms will be possible Thursday night through
Saturday night across the area. The severe threat remains uncertain
at this time.

Hot temperatures return this weekend and into the beginning of next
week with heat indices rising into the low 100s across portions of
north central and into central Nebraska.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:24 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 6:03 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 6:12 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 6:17 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 6:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 6:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	39 min
Jul 22, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	42 min
Jul 22, 8:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Sheridan	3 hr
Jul 23, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	45 min
Jul 23, 1:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Arthur	38 min
Jul 23, 2:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Keith	10 min
Jul 23, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	39 min
Jul 23, 2:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Keith	3 hr
Jul 23, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	38 min
Jul 23, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	43 min
Jul 23, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Perkins	44 min
Jul 23, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln, Perkins	49 min
Jul 23, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	39 min
Jul 23, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	19 min
Jul 23, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Lincoln	41 min
Jul 23, 3:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Lincoln	4 min
Jul 23, 3:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 23, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Garfield, Loup	47 min
Jul 23, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	50 min
Jul 23, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	49 min
Jul 23, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LBF	Custer, Garfield, Loup	46 min
Jul 23, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	43 min
Jul 23, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	41 min
Jul 23, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	40 min
Jul 23, 4:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Custer, Garfield, Loup	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	40 min
Jul 23, 4:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Lincoln	2 hr
Jul 23, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	30 min
Jul 23, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Custer	44 min
Jul 23, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	23 min
Jul 23, 4:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Custer	4 hr
Jul 23, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	48 min
Jul 23, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	45 min
Jul 23, 5:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Custer	4 hr
Jul 23, 5:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Lincoln	103 min
Jul 23, 5:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Lincoln	101 min
Jul 23, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	51 min
Jul 23, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	51 min
Jul 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	45 min
Jul 23, 5:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Custer	3 hr
Jul 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Gosper	42 min
Jul 23, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	41 min
Jul 23, 6:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Holt	3 hr
Jul 23, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Custer	35 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.