1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 1:47 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 247 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE TO BE POPS IN TONIGHT AND MONDAY NIGHT PERIODS...THEN TEMPS IN THE EXTENDED... CURRENT UPPER AIR ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO DEMONSTRATE A FAIRLY ZONAL PATTERN WITH UPPER LEVEL HIGH OVER TX AND CLOSED LOW OVER HUDSON BAY. SEVERAL EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES PRESENT PER WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. AT THE SURFACE...WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO LIFT SLOWLY NORTHWARD ACROSS CWA. DRY LINE NOW THROUGH MCK...WITH HIGH DEW POINTS EXTENDING FROM HDE TO IML TO CDR. HIGH DEW POINTS NEAR 70F COULD BE ATTAINABLE BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NERN CWA GIVEN THE CURRENT TREND. WITH WEAK CAP IN PLACE...TRIGGERING MECHANISM COULD BE MINIMAL. OTHER CONSIDERATION WILL BE WHERE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY SETS UP FROM MCS OVER SD. MAIN CONCERN THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING WILL BE ZONE OF INITIATION OF THUNDERSTORMS...FIRST IN VICINITY OF WARM FRONT...AND SECOND IN THE VICINITY OF THE DRY LINE. SFC WINDS ACROSS PANHANDLE HAVE SHIFTED TO THE WEST. PROFILERS AT MERRIMAN AND MCCOOK SHOW LOW LEVEL WINDS HAVE SHIFTED TO THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST RESPECTIVELY. .TONIGHT...MODELS SHOW GOOD AGREEMENT WITH POSITIONING LOW OVER NRN NEBR THIS EVENING. LOW EXPECTED TO MOVE ALONG WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY WITH GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS ACROSS NRN CWA. THINK AT THIS TIME STORMS ACROSS SW WILL BE ISOLATED SO WILL KEEP POPS LOW UNDER 20. WILL GO WITH 50 POPS OVER NERN COUNTIES. BY LATE AFTERNOON...AM THINKING WARM FRONT SHOULD BE NORTH OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CWA. AM THINKING DRY LINE WILL BE A MINOR PLAYER IN THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING EARLY EVENING. AM MORE CONCERNED WITH PRECIP LATE AS COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS SRN CWA. .MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...COLD FRONT SETTLES SOUTH OF CWA ACROSS NRN KANSAS. DEPENDING ON MODEL ETA HAS FRONTAL POSITION FARTHER SOUTH COMPARED WITH AVN. SHOULD SEE FAIR ABUNDANCE OF CLOUDS TOMORROW BEHIND FRONT. GRADIENT TIGHTENS BEHIND FRONT IN THE NORTH SO WILL WORD FCST AS BREEZY. NUMERICAL GUIDANCE IS ALL OVER THE PLACE...SO WILL USE 850 MB TEMPS AS GUIDANCE FOR HIGHS. WILL MENTION LOW POPS FOR PCPN EARLY IN ERN COUNTIES. BUT WILL KEEP REST OF CWA DRY AS FORCING STAYS SOUTH AND EAST OF CWA DURING THE DAY. BY MONDAY NIGHT...SERIES OF SHORTWAVES RIDE ALONG STALLED FRONT ALONG THE KS NEBR BORDER. WITH SFC BOUNDARY IN PLACE AND ADEQUATE DIVERGENCE AT H3 PLUS GOOD OMEGA...WILL MENTION POPS IN CWA WITH HIGHEST IN SRN COUNTIES. TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...CWA CAUGHT IN MOIST UPSLOPE BETWEEN HIGH TO THE NORTH AND LOW TO THE SOUTH. WITH BOUNDARY REMAINING TO THE SOUTH...COUPLED WITH DECENT DIVERGENCE AT H3 AND EJECTING SHORTWAVES...WILL MENTION LOW POPS OVER SRN 2/3 OF CWA...MAINLY EARLY. SHOULD BE FAIRLY COOL WITH EAST WINDS AND CLOUD CANOPY BEING PRESENT. WE DRY OUT ON TUESDAY AS SFC HIGH PUSHES FRONT INTO SRN KANSAS. BULK OF MOISTURE WILL BE PINNED UP AGAINST PANHANDLE. WILL KEEP FCST DRY FOR NOW. .EXTENDED...WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. DRYING TREND CONTINUES TO REMAIN ON TRACK AS H5 FLOW BECOMES MORE AMPLIFIED AND FORCING IS CONFINED TO ERN COLORADO. ...FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO AMPLIFY THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND CONTINUES TO BE CONSISTENT WITH PREVIOUS MRF RUNS. GRADUAL WARM UP CONTINUES TO BE ON TRACK. H85 TEMPS REACH 24C ACROSS PANHANDLE COUNTIES ON SUNDAY. NERN COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO BE COOLER...AS TROUGHING IN THE EAST WILL HAVE A LIMITED INFLUENCE ON TEMPS THERE. COORDINATED WITH GID. .LBF...NONE. CLB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm wind gusts snapped off utility poles.
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