An isolated severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts around 60 mph near Moorefield which destroyed a pop up camper and dropped 4 inch diameter tree limbs.
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An isolated severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts around 60 mph near Moorefield which destroyed a pop up camper and dropped 4 inch diameter tree limbs.
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 6, 5:56 PM CST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 656 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2007 .UPDATE... REMOVED SEVERE WORDING IN THE GRIDDED FORECAST FOR TONIGHT AS AFTERNOON HEATING WAS INSUFFICIENT TO INITIATE DEVELOPMENT ALONG FRONT OR ANY EXISTING BOUNDARIES. STILL...AT LEAST ISOLATED DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE TONIGHT. ALSO MODELS INDICATING MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING NORTHEAST FROM COLORADO LATE TONIGHT COULD SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHWESTERN ZONES SIMILAR TO WHAT OCCURRED EARLY THIS MORNING AND MODIFIED 12Z-18Z TUESDAY GRIDS TO REFLECT THIS. && KAR .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 304 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2007/ DISCUSSION... STILL NO REAL CHANGES IN THE FCST THINKING THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE NAM AND GFS BOTH INDICATE A STEADY STREAM OF DISTURBANCES MOVING OFF THE COLO FRONT RANGE. IN FACT...THE NAM NOW INDICATES ANOTHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH THURSDAY PRODUCING MORE STORMS. STORM DEVELOPMENT IS PARTIALLY FORCED BY HIGH CAPE AND INSTABILITY. THE OFFICIAL FCST DISCOUNTS THIS FEATURE THURSDAY BUT LATER FCSTS MAY HAVE TO ADJUST. DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THURSDAY AND ON THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY FOR THE MOST PART. THE GFS AND NAM SUGGEST A DRYLINE BULGE WILL DEVELOP WEDNESDAY HELPING TO PROVIDE FOCUS FOR TSTM DEVELOPMENT IN THE LATE AFTN. WINDS ALOFT WILL BE STRONG AND SPC HAS OUTLOOKED THE FCST AREA FOR SEVERE WEATHER TUES AND WEDS. BOTH MODELS SUGGEST THE CAP WILL BE WEAK ENOUGH FOR SCATTERED CONVECTION TO FORM SO POPS ARE ALLOWED TO FLOAT AS HIGH AS 40 PERCENT. MAJOR TIMING ISSUES HAVE DEVELOPED AS DISTURBANCES ROTATE AROUND THE H5 SUBTROPICAL HIGH. THE FCST USES THE LATEST MODEL DATA AND IS A BLEND OF THE NAM12 AND GFS. NO ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO SECOND GUESS OR REFINE THE MODEL FCSTS. FOR TONIGHT...CURRENT THINKING IS THAT THE SURFACE DRYLINE FROM ROUGHLY KVTN SOUTH TO KOGA AND KIML IS EXPECTED TO PRESS EAST. DEVELOPING WARM FRONT FROM KLXN TO KAUH WILL LIFT NORTH. VERY STRONG WAA ACROSS KS WITH TEMPS IN THE 90S WILL FUEL SEVERE STORMS ACROSS NERN NEB ZONES. FCST IS SOMEWHAT SPECULATIVE AS ATM HAS STABILIZED IN THE WAKE OF THE THIS MORNINGS MCS. THIS IS VERY SHORT TURN AROUND FOR SEVERE WEATHER. LATER TONIGHT A DISTURBANCE APPEARS TO BE EMERGING FROM THE CNTL/SRN ROCKIES. STORMS COULD DEVELOP EASTWARD THIS EVENING OR OVERNIGHT INTO THE NEB PANHANDLE. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...PROSPECTS FOR TSTM DEVELOPMENT ARE BEST ANALYZED AT 18Z EACH DAY SO NO ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION WILL BE PROVIDED. BEYOND...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...HPC AND GFS BOTH SUGGEST ANOTHER DISTURBANCE FRIDAY NIGHT AND THEN THE CAP STRENGTHENS AND PCPN CHCS DIMINISH. THE H5 SUBTROPICAL RIDGE IS FCST TO RETREAT WESTWARD ACROSS THE CNTL PLAINS. VERY WARM...HUMID AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE. LATER FCSTS MAY HAVE TO ADD ISOLD TSTMS. FOR NOW THERE IS A CHC OF STORMS LATE FRIDAY OTHERWISE THE FCST IS DRY. THE TEMP FORECAST IS THE USUAL BLEND OF NAM12 2M TEMPS...GUIDANCE AND HPC GUIDANCE. A SLIGHT DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT WAS MADE AS GUIDANCE HAS BEEN TOO WARM THIS SUMMER. HIGHS ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S IN THE VERY MOIST ENVIRONMENT. AVIATION... THE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM THAT MOVED THROUGH WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING...AND THE CLOUDINESS IN ITS WAKE...APPEAR TO BE HOLDING TEMPERATURES DOWN OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. THIS WOULD TEND TO KEEP THE LOWEST LEVELS FAIRLY STABLE AND SUPPRESS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. BECAUSE OF THE CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS AND...EVEN MORE SO...THE OCCURRENCE OF A STORM IN THE IMMEDIATE AREAS OF NORTH PLATTE AND VALENTINE...WE WILL HOLD OFF ON THE MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS AND PUT IN A MENTION OF CB IN THE TERMINAL FORECASTS UNTIL A MORE COHESIVE SCENARIO DEVELOPS. OUTSIDE OF THE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...IT APPEARS THAT CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES WILL BE IN THE VISUAL TO UNRESTRICTED RANGE THROUGH TUESDAY. LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && CDC
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1035 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2007 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-080345- 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- 1035 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2007 /935 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. THE BEST FOCUS WILL BE ALONG A WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHERE MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS EXIST...ESPECIALLY NEAR AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. A MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRACKING NORTHEAST FROM COLORADO WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOP OF SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING INTENSE RAINFALL WITH RUNOFF AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEAST ALONG THE WARM FRONT TUESDAY PROVIDING FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR THUNDERSTORMS INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY FOR AREAS SOUTH OF HIGHWAYS 2 AND 91. FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS THROUGH MOST OF THE WEEK WHILE A SURFACE BOUNDARY IS LIKELY TO PERSIST ON THE HIGH PLAINS. AS A RESULT...THERE IS A CONTINUED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NEARLY EVERY DAY THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE KAR
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:01 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A pop-up camper was destroyed and 4 inch diameter tree limbs were broken by thunderstorm wind gusts.
Heavy rain from a thunderstorm produced 2.93 inches of rain in one hour and just over 3 inches in two hours causing flash flooding of streets.
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