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Special Weather Statement, NWS North Platte, NE

August 2, 2025Chase County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2025, 7:44 PM MDT for Chase County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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: Aug 2, 2025, 7:44 PM MDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2025, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 55

County Chase County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 336 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: 1582 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 Aug 2, 5:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 5:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 10:17 AM MDT, 9 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 6:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 7:05 PM MDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 7:44 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	46 min
Aug 2, 7:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase	40 min
Aug 2, 7:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Perkins	52 min
Aug 3, 4:46 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Holt	44 min
Aug 3, 2:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hooker	25 min
Aug 3, 2:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Arthur	45 min
Aug 3, 2:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hooker	23 min
Aug 3, 2:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hooker	32 min
Aug 3, 2:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, Thomas	25 min
Aug 3, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, Thomas	47 min
Aug 3, 3:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	42 min
Aug 3, 3:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Arthur	39 min
Aug 3, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln, McPherson	30 min
Aug 3, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Hooker	45 min
Aug 3, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	42 min
Aug 3, 4:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	50 min
Aug 3, 4:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keya Paha	45 min
Aug 3, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha	50 min
Aug 3, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	23 min
Aug 3, 4:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	41 min
Aug 3, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown	43 min
Aug 3, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Arthur	41 min
Aug 3, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	47 min
Aug 3, 5:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Grant	43 min
Aug 3, 5:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	46 min
Aug 3, 5:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown	52 min
Aug 3, 5:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer	47 min
Aug 3, 5:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	43 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.