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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 300, NWS North Platte, NE

August 12, 2026Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2026, 12:02 AM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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: Aug 12, 2026, 12:02 AM MDT (06:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2026, 12:45 AM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 11, 9:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 3392 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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 Aug 11, 11:10 PM MDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 11:10 PM MDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 2:03 PM MDT, 9 hours 59 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service North Platte NE
303 PM CDT Tue Aug 11 2026

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-122015-
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-
303 PM CDT Tue Aug 11 2026 /203 PM MDT Tue Aug 11 2026/

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

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Scattered thunderstorms, a few severe, will be possible late this
afternoon and evening across northern Nebraska. Large hail and
damaging winds will be the main concerns.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Additional chances for scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are
expected Wednesday afternoon and evening across much of the area.
The threat will then turn to the threat for locally heavy rainfall
Wednesday night through Saturday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 11, 7:55 PM MDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 8:57 PM MDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 11:48 PM MDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 11:50 PM MDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 11:51 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 11:54 PM MDT, 8 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 11, 6:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Perkins	49 min
Aug 11, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	62 min
Aug 11, 6:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Logan	43 min
Aug 11, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	47 min
Aug 11, 7:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	51 min
Aug 11, 8:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	47 min
Aug 11, 11:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry, Keya Paha	52 min
Aug 11, 11:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry	28 min
Aug 11, 11:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Rock	52 min
Aug 12, 12:22 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	38 min
Aug 12, 12:59 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock	46 min
Aug 12, 1:35 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock	40 min
Aug 12, 1:39 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	51 min
Aug 12, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Sheridan	61 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.