1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 13, 2:25 AM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 325 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 COMBINATION OF WAVE MOVING OUT OF WY/SD...LEFT OVER BOUNDARIES/ FRONT...LOW LVL JET...AND ELEVATED THETA-E RIDGE HAS LEFT KLNX LIT UP TONIGHT. LOOKING AT H2O IMAGERY SEVERAL WAVES TO THE WEST HEADED OUR WAY IN WEAK ZONAL FLOW. BEST CANIDATE AT THIS TIME LOOKS TO BE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO...SLOWLY HEADING EAST. FCST LOOKS IN GOOD SHAPE FIRST FEW PERIODS. CURRENT WAVE KICKING CONVECTION OFF WILL SLOWLY MOVE OVER NORTHERN CWA TODAY PROVIDING LIFT ALONG WITH RR OF UPPER JET MAX...WITH STONGER WAVE IN COLORADO PROVIDING UPWARD MOTION TO S/W CWA. INSTABILITY WILL COME WITH PERSISTANT THETA E RIDGE OVER THE HIGH PLAINS OF COLORADO/WYOMING INTO WESTERN CWA. SO ADDITIONAL STORMS SHOULD FORM IN HIGHER TERRAIN AND SLOWLY MAKE IT EAST THROUGH THE EVENING. HGHT FALLS ASSOC WITH NEXT APPROACHING WAVE AROUND SUNSET...WILL ALLOW LOW LVL JET TO CREEP BACK UP AND MAY SUSTAIN CONVECTION THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. ABOVE NORMAL PWS...LIGHT WINDS ALOFT. RAIN REPORTS FROM TODAY...MAY PUT HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE IN ZONES. CONVECTION THREAT SHOULD CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY AS WESTERN RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD INTO AREA WITH STRONGER TROFFING IN EPAC. INSTABILITY RIDGE STILL PRESENT IN HIGH PLAINS...STRONGER SHEAR WILL BE PRESENT IN THE PANHANDLE SO AFTERNOON STORMS MAY AGAIN BE POSSIBLE WITH MOST ACTIVITY MOVING EAST THROUGH THE NIGHT. DRIER WEATHER SHOULD MOVE INTO CWA FROM SUNDAY ON WITH ARRIVAL OF RIDGE. THIS WILL LEAD TO SLIGHT WARMING TREND WITH MUCH OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY NORTH OF CWA...ALL REFLECTED WILL IN CURRENT GRIDS SO NO MAJOR CHANGES PLANNED. .LBF...NONE. 13
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-131100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1026 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TONIGHT OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE WEST OF A LINE FROM CURTIS...IN NORTHERN FRONTIER COUNTY...TO AINSWORTH IN BROWN COUNTY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA OVERNIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE. STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BRIEFLY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...PRIMARILY...AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN...DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL WEAKEN AS IT MOVES INTO THE EASTERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA LATER TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AN ACTIVE UPPER LEVEL PATTERN WILL CONTINUE FOR FRIDAY...KEEPING A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN TO THE OUTLOOK AREA. CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT INSTABILITY DURING THE DAY...THEREFORE SEVERE WEATHER WILL NOT BE AS LIKELY. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST ON SATURDAY. A DRY WEATHER PATTERN IS THEN EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED OVERNIGHT IN THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TO PROVIDE INFORMATION CONCERNING HAIL AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS. KAR
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water accumulated from slow moving storms and caused Highway 25 to be flooded by three feet of water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, June 2003
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5363170.