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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS North Platte, NE

July 9, 2026Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2026, 11:21 PM CDT for Lincoln 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 2026, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2026, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 372 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 2026-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1516 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 2026-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 7:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFGarden42 min
Jul 9, 7:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFSheridan27 min
Jul 9, 7:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFDeuel43 min
Jul 9, 7:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFThomas34 min
Jul 9, 7:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFChase48 min
Jul 9, 8:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFThomas39 min
Jul 9, 8:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFChase, Perkins46 min
Jul 9, 9:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFHayes48 min
Jul 9, 10:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLincoln28 min
Jul 9, 10:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLincoln33 min
Jul 9, 11:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLBFLincoln29 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.