1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Aug 31, 2:10 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 310 AM CDT TUE AUG 31 2004 .DISCUSSION... PROFILER PLOT CONTINUES TO SHOW MID LEVEL TROUGH ACROSS THE WEST ATTM WITH H85 SOUTHWEST WINDS TO 35 KNOTS. CONVECTION OVER THE NORTH IS WEAKENING BUT WILL CONTINUE TO CREEP TO THE EAST INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AS TROUGH AXIS MOVES EAST. TODAY WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST WITH POPS A CONCERN WITH POTENTIAL FOR REPEAT OF YESTERDAY SEEN THIS AFTERNOON. ELEVATED CONVECTION MAY DEVELOP LATE IN THE AFTERNOON ALONG EXISTING BOUNDARY AS ETA SHOWS THE AIRMASS QUITE UNSTABLE WITH CAP WEAKENING TO KEEP POPS AS IS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST INTO THE NORTHEAST. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB A FEW MORE DEGREES WITH WARMER GUIDANCE FOLLOWED. THROUGH MIDWEEK THE UPPER RIDGE AXIS WILL BUILD EAST. BY THURSDAY AIRMASS MODIFIER MOVES IN ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC WITH MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT OVERALL. YET MODELS HAVE CONTINUED TO PUSH FRONTAL PASSAGE ACROSS NEBRASKA BACKWARD AND NOW SHOWING BOUNDARY FROM NEAR VTN TO IML LINE FRIDAY MORNING. THERE REMAINS SOME UNCERTAINTY SEEN HERE GIVEN THE COLDER AIR SET TO MOVE SOUTH INTO THE PLAINS THROUGH SATURDAY. BEST CHANCE FOR RAINFALL WILL BE FRIDAY AS FRONTOGENETIC FORCING AND STEEPENING LAPSE RATES OCCUR. SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY UPPER TROUGH WILL PULL NORTHEAST. INCREASING ZONAL FLOW ALOFT WILL HELP PUSH TEMPERATURES UPWARDS WITH DRY CONDITIONS. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && TLK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 959 PM CDT MON AUG 30 2004 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-311030- ARTHUR NE-BLAINE NE-BOYD NE-BROWN NE-CHASE NE-CUSTER NE-DEUEL NE- EASTERN CHERRY NE-FRONTIER NE-GARDEN NE-GARFIELD NE-GRANT NE- HAYES NE-HOLT NE-HOOKER NE-KEITH NE-KEYA PAHA NE-LINCOLN NE-LOGAN NE- LOUP NE-MCPHERSON NE-PERKINS NE-ROCK NE-SHERIDAN NE-THOMAS NE- WESTERN CHERRY NE-WHEELER NE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AINSWORTH...ARNOLD...ARTHUR...BASSETT... BIG SPRINGS...BREWSTER...BROKEN BOW...BURWELL...CHAPPELL...CURTIS... GORDON...GRANT...HAY SPRINGS...HAYES CENTER...IMPERIAL...MULLEN... NORTH PLATTE...ONEILL...OGALLALA...OSHKOSH...RUSHVILLE...SPENCER... SPRINGVIEW...STAPLETON...TAYLOR...THEDFORD...TRYON AND VALENTINE 959 PM CDT MON AUG 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED...SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING SHOULD BE ANTICIPATED LOCALLY. THE AREA FOR THE ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN NORTH OF HIGHWAYS 2 AND 91. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL ADVANCE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED STORMS EXPECTED. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE ADEQUATE NEAR THE FRONT TO SUPPORT MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE...MOVING ACROSS THE DAKOTAS...WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING THIS TIME PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:16 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm outflow winds broke off large tree branches and snapped off power poles.
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