Thunderstorms formed during the late evening and early morning hours across the Eastern Panhandle and strengthened as they moved eastward into the Sandhills and portions of Southwest Nebraska. and damaged numerous trees.
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The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
Thunderstorms formed during the late evening and early morning hours across the Eastern Panhandle and strengthened as they moved eastward into the Sandhills and portions of Southwest Nebraska. These storms produced severe wind gusts up to 85 mph...snapped power poles...and damaged numerous trees.
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 22, 6:15 PM MST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 815 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2007 .WILL ISSUE AN UPDATE SHORTLY TO INCREASE POPS IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN ZONES AND TO DROP THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FROM THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA. IMPRESSIVE CONVECTION IN THE PANHANDLE...ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG WAVE CROSSING WYOMING...WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NRN HALF OF THE CWA OVERNIGHT. FURTHER SOUTH...CONVECTION OVER E CENTRAL COLORADO...ORIENTED ALONG THE STATIONARY FRONT...SHOULD REMAINED ANCHORED ALONG THIS FEATURE OVERNIGHT. WITH THIS IN MIND...BEST CHANCES FOR PCPN OVERNIGHT REMAIN WITH THE ELEVATED CONVECTION IN THE NRN ZONES. WITH THE WATCH NOT COVERING ANY OF THESE AREAS AND WITH THE SRN AND CENTRAL ZONES CONVECTION FREE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING...WILL CANCEL THE WATCH. WOULDNT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A WATCH HOISTED NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF LBF LATER ON AND WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION UP THERE. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION FOLLOWS... ISSUED AT 343 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2007 .SYNOPSIS... SFC FRONT AT 20Z LOCATED FROM NEAR GOODLAND NORTHEAST THROUGH HASTINGS. RADAR COMPOSITE HAS HAD ELEVATED CONVECTION ALL DAY ACROSS THE CNTRL SANDHILLS WHICH UNTIL 1930Z BEGAN TO TURN RIGHT INTO LOUP AND CUSTER COUNTY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG FONT TO OUR SOUTH ATTM. && .DISCUSSION... FLASH FLOOD THREAT REMAIN TONIGHT FOR FRONTIER COUNTY AND ALSO IN THE NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES...MAINLY EAT OF SPRINGVIEW THROUGH BURWELL. ALTHOUGH THE MOST INTENSE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN OFF TO OUR SOUTHEAST...HIGH PWS WILL ENHANCE THE HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT. COVERAGE WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING...THEN CHCS ENHANCE ACROSS THE NCTRL AFTER MIDNIGHT AS MID LEVEL TROUGH PUSHES EAST. MOSTLY CLOUDY THURSDAY AND TRENDED COOLER NEAR A 50/50 MAV/MET GUIDANCE BLEND FOR TEMPS. LINGERING CHC POPS EAST...WITH DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SRN COUNTIES ANTICIPATED BY LATE AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY NIGHT. ALSO TRENDED TEMPS DOWN FRIDAY DUE TO CLOUDINESS AND PREVAILING EASTERLY WINDS. CARRYING SLIGHT CHC FRIDAY AS MID LEVEL TROUGH PASSES. CHCS COULD CARRY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT...ALTHOUGH HAVE WENT DRY THIS FCST PKG. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SLIDES EAST SATURDAY WITH A WARM FRONT COMING THROUGH FROM THE WEST SATURDAY NIGHT. THIS MAY LEAD TO SOME OVERNIGHT CONVECTION NCTRL. NEXT UPPER TROUGH IS THEN PROGGED TO ARRIVE MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY. MORE TSRA...SCT TO NMRS...SEVERE AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WOULD BE POSSIBLE...GIVEN POSSIBLE TAP OF MOISTURE FROM DEAN REMNANTS. && .AVIATION... AREAS OF MVFR CIGS AND VSBYS TONIGHT MAINLY DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS INITIALLY. IN WAKE OF CONVECTION...STRATUS WITH AREAS OF IFR CIGS AND WIDESPREAD MVFR CIGS AND AND VSBY TO IMPACT TAF SITES KLBF AND KVTN. && .HYDROLOGY... HEAVY RAINFALL FEEL ACROSS HOOKER AND MCPHERSON COUNTY TODAY WITH ENHANCED HEAVY RAINFALL FOR ALL AREAS EAST OF BROKEN BOW THROUGH AINSWORTH WITH NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STANDING WATER. GOING FFW IS WARRANTED DUE TO VERY LOW FFG VALUES IN THE WARNING AREAS. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT NEZ006-007-009-010-028-029-071. && KAR/DP/CLB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 916 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2007 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-232115- 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- 916 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2007 /816 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS ALL OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL OVERNIGHT...AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES EAST OF THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. AT THIS TIME...WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...HOWEVER AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE...MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM IMPERIAL...TO STAPLETON...TO BURWELL. HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR FRONTIER...KEYA PAHA...BOYD...HOLT...ROCK...GARFIELD AND WHEELER COUNTIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THURSDAY...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ACROSS A SMALL PORTION OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM IMPERIAL AND STOCKVILLE. LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE ARE THE MAIN CONCERN. A STATIONARY FRONT WILL SAG VERY SLOWLY SOUTH INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS. SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA WILL BE ON THE NORTHERN EDGE OF A MORE EXPANSIVE AREA OUTLOOKED FOR SEVERE WEATHER STRETCHING ACROSS KANSAS AND EASTERN COLORADO. THUS...ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE CLB
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:58 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Two 20 inch diameter utility poles were snapped near the ground. A 12 inch diameter tree trunk was also broken by the wind.
Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were broken off trees.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 2007
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