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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 437, NWS North Platte, NE

September 5, 2026Deuel County, Garden County, Keith County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2026, 6:19 PM MDT for Deuel County, Garden County, Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 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: Sep 5, 2026, 6:19 PM MDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2026, 6:44 PM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Keith County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 5, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 2324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 15.8

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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 Sep 5, 5:54 PM MDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 5:54 PM MDT, 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 5, 2:38 PM MDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 5, 2:47 PM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 6:19 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
Sep 5, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	60 min
Sep 5, 10:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Deuel	53 min
Sep 5, 10:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Deuel, Garden	3 hr
Sep 5, 10:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Deuel, Keith, Perkins	62 min
Sep 5, 11:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith	38 min
Sep 6, 12:11 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson	49 min
Sep 6, 12:32 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Arthur, Hooker, Keith, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson	43 min
Sep 6, 12:39 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	51 min
Sep 6, 1:31 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer, Logan, Thomas	44 min
Sep 6, 4:35 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	40 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.