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 Jun 5, 2:41 AM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 341 AM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED CONVECTION ONGOING WITH FORECAST CHALLENGE TODAY POPS AND SEVERE POTENTIAL. THE DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST THROUGH THE NEB PANHANDLE ATTM PUSHING EAST AT 41 KNOTS AND WILL BE THROUGH FORECAST AREA BY 12Z. CONVECTION MAINTAINING WITH BOUNDARY THAT DRIFTED NORTHWEST THROUGH THE LNX RADAR AT MIDNIGHT TO GIVE ADDITIONAL LIFT WITH STORMS EXPECTED TO PUSH EAST INTO BROWN...BLAINE AND KEYA PAHA COUNTIES BY 4 AM. THEN SECOND CLUSTER OF STORMS IN SOUTHERN PANHANDLE INTENSIFING WHILE MOVING EAST WITH RED WILLOW PROFILER SHOWING SOUTHEAST WINDS TO 35 KNOTS IN LOWEST GATES INCREASING THE INFO TO STORMS IN THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. MODELS CLOSE TODAY IN PUSHING FRONTAL SYSTEM SOUTHEAST AND EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS NEB BY 00Z. THE H85 DEWPOINTS TO 14 DEG C PLUS WEDGES NORTH TO PROVIDE AMPLE MOISTURE THROUGH CENTRAL NEB AS STRONGER WAVE MOVES EAST BY 18Z. THEN BOUNDARY TO REMAIN FOCUS FOR SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT GENERALLY IN AREAS EAST OF 83 THIS AFTERNOON IN DEFORMATION ZONE. MODERATE RISK AREA CLIPS EASTERN ZONES WITH IMPACT OF CURRENT CONVECTION TO LINGER INTO THE MORNING WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO NORTH CENTRAL AS MCS FORMING OVER THE SOUTHWEST PANHANDLE MOVES SOUTHEAST. LAPS DATA SUGGESTS THE SOUTHWEST MAY BE BETTER CAPPED WITH CONVECTION TO AT LEAST WEAKEN WHILE MOVING SOUTHEAST...TIME WILL TELL. FOR TODAY THE FRONT WILL EXTEND FROM NEAR VTN TO IML BY 18Z THEN ANW TO MCK AT 00Z. AREAS EAST OF HIGHWAY 83 WILL BE PRIMED AS STRONG MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES EAST. H85 DEWPOINTS INTO THE MID TEENS ...K INDICES IN THE MID 30S...AND PW RATIOS AT OR ABOVE AN INCH BRINGS TO LIGHT POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO INTO THE NCNTRL THIS AFTERNOON. TONIGHT THE FRONT WILL SLIP SOUTH WITH DRIER AIR TO FILTER IN ACROSS THE NORTHWEST. AS THE SURFACE HIGH BUILDS SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT CLEARING EXCEPT FOR THE FAR SOUTHWEST WHERE UPSLOPE FLOW AND MOISTURE BEING DRAWN NORTHWEST MAY KEEP SOME CLOUD COVERAGE OVER. THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS THEN THROUGH THURSDAY WITH THE NEXT SYSTEM TO MOVE OUT ONTO THE HIGH PLAINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. INCREASING UPSLOPE FLOW AND H85 JETLET TO 40 KNOTS OVERNIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING WILL BRING A CHANCE FOR RAIN IN THE WEST AS A STRONG WAVE MOVES THROUGH THE UPPER RIDGE. BY MIDWEEK THICKNESS VALUES SUPPORT WARMER TEMPERATURES THAN CURRENT GUIDANCE SUGGEST AND RAISED TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS EAST WITH THE SOUTHWEST FLOW TO BECOME DOMINATE AS SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE PLAINS. FEW CHANGES MADE TO THE EXTENDED PERIOD AS PROGRESSIVE PATTERN SHOWN. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 434 FOR SOUTHWEST AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA.. && 19
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 413 AM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-060915- SHERIDAN-EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-GARDEN- GRANT-HOOKER-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-ARTHUR-MCPHERSON- LOGAN-CUSTER-DEUEL-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN-CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER- WESTERN CHERRY- 413 AM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 /313 AM MDT MON JUN 5 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. AN ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER DAY IS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL BUT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE WESTERN NEBRASKA. THE CONCERN IS GREATEST ACROSS HOLT...BOYD...WHEELER AND GARFIELD COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON WHERE CONDITIONS WILL BE MOST FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL...WIND DAMAGE AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. ELSEWHERE... THE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LESS BUT JUNE IS THE PEAK SEVERE WEATHER MONTH SO SEVERE WEATHER IS A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE) CDC
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:01 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm outflow winds broke off numerous large tree branches.
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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: 5510834, 5510833.