2 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 12, 12:05 PM MST, 7 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 205 PM CDT FRI AUG 12 2005 ...FCST CONCERNS TEMPERATURES SAT-MON AND RAINFALL TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY... .DISCUSSION... MODELS AND FCSTRS ALIKE STRUGGLING WITH RAINFALL PATTERNS. SATELLITE AND OBSERVATIONS WILL WORK THE BEST IN THE FIRST PERIOD. MAIN PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE TIMING AND LOCATION OF THE AREAS OF RAINFALL. NAM HAS BEEN TOO FAST AND TOO WET AT TIMES WHILE THE GFS IS SLOWER BUT STILL MISPLACES THE PCPN. FOR TONIGHT...SWODY1 SUGGESTS A HIGH PLAINS SVR WX OUTBREAK. 18Z OBSERVED DATA CLEARLY SHOWS STG MOISTURE ADVECTION ONTO THE HIGH PLAINS WITH GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES ASSOCIATED WITH DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE OVER SERN WY. WAA HAS NOT CRANKED UP YET BUT 80S AT NOON MDT AT SLC SUGGESTS WARM AIR WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR STORMS TO FIRE OVER ERN WY/NEB PANHANDLE. TWO SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH PACIFIC NORTH AMERICAN AMPLIFICATION OF THE H5 HEIGHT FIELD MAY BE TRYING TO PHASE OVER THE NRN INTERMOUNTAIN REGION. THIS WOULD PROBABLY IGNITE MULTICELL CONVECTION WITH EMBEDDED SUPER CELLS GIVEN THE HIGH AVAILABLE MOISTURE. PRESUMABLY THIS CONVECTION WILL COALESCE ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE/SWRN SD TONIGHT...MOVE E-SE AND PRODUCE FAIRLY WIDESPREAD RAIN/TSRA ACROSS NRN ZONES AND PERHAPS CNTL/SRN ZONES. SATURDAY/SUNDAY...NAM/GFS HAVE BEEN ADVERTISING COOL DAMP WEATHER FOR SATURDAY AND PART OF SUNDAY FOR SOME TIME NOW. THE LATEST SOLNS SUGGEST A SECOND DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT PRODUCING LIGHT RAIN. EXPECTING LIGHT RAIN SATURDAY AM WITH THE DEPARTING MCS...CLOUDS DURING THE DAY...AND THEN ANOTHER SHOT OF LIGHT RAIN SATURDAY NIGHT. HELD ON TO CLOUDS AND LIGHT RAIN SUNDAY AM AS MODELS HAVE BEEN TOO FAST. MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...GFS/NAM IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH A WARMING TREND AS THE H5 RIDGE AMPLIFIES INTO THE CNTL/NRN PLAINS. IN FACT AT 192 HRS THE SFC LOW PRESSURE OVER THE NRN PLAINS AND H5 HEIGHT FIELDS ACROSS THE NRN U.S. APPEAR TO DIFFER BY ONLY 3 MB AND 3 DM RESPECTIVELY. THE NAM FEATURES QUASI STATIONARY LOW PRESSURE OVER THE NRN PLAINS MIGRATING SLOWLY EWD INTO THE ERN DAKOTAS BY DAY 7. H10-5 THICKNESS IN THE 570-580 RANGE GENERALLY SUPPORTS TEMPS IN THE 80S TO NEAR 90. 580+ THICKNESS DAY 7 SUGGESTS 90+F. FCST IS DRY AT THIS POINT. LATER FCSTS CAN BE REFINED TO ADD DIURNAL/NOCTURNAL CONVECTION AS NEEDED. && LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && CDC
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 340 PM CDT FRI AUG 12 2005 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-131030- 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 340 PM CDT FRI AUG 12 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS EVENING...MOVING OUT OF EASTERN WYOMING. A FEW OF THESES STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS GUSTS. THE MAIN THREAT AREA WILL BE MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 61 THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA AS A FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS UNTIL SUNRISE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING ACROSS THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INTO THE WESTERN SANDHILLS...MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 61. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE) CLB/13
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 161 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:56 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 MPH broke numerous large tree limbs, removed shingles from buildings, and damaged a metal shed.
Thunderstorm outflow winds of 60 mph broke numerous large tree branches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 2005
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: 5464948, 5464949.