Thunderstorms moved into North Central Nebraska during the evening hours and produced numerous severe wind reports across Brown, Keya Paha, and Holt counties.
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The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
Thunderstorms moved into North Central Nebraska during the evening hours and produced numerous severe wind reports across Brown, Keya Paha, and Holt counties.
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 Jul 5, 2:26 PM CST, 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 326 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2007 .SYNOPSIS... WEAK CONVERGENT BOUNDARY ANCHORED ACROSS THE CENTRAL SANDHILLS THIS AFTERNOON AND IS SERVING AS THE FOCUS FOR TSRAS THIS AFTERNOON. MULTICELLULAR STORMS NOTED AS WIND SHEAR WEAK PER VAD DATA AND 12Z SOUNDING DATA THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURES ARE NEAR SEASONAL NORMS ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WITH READINGS IN THE UPPR 80S TO LOWER 90S. && .DISCUSSION... BOUNDARY SPARKING OFF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON STALLS OUT OVERNIGHT WITH LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS ACROSS THE REGION. AM EXPECTING CONVECTION TO DIE OFF QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET AS UPPR SUPPORT LACKING. TOMORROW THIS BOUNDARY BECOMES DIFFUSE WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS PICKING BACK UP AS SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT BEGINS TO INCREASE ACROSS THE PLAINS. CONDITIONS FOR TOMORROW WILL BE DRY WITH TEMPERATURES SIMILAR TO TODAY. BY SATURDAY THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO FLATTEN IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER LEVEL WAVE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL CANADA. AS THE RIDGE DEAMPLIFIES...THE HEAT ACROSS THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST...WILL SPREAD EAST INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. A SURFACE TROF...LINGERING ACROSS THE PANHANDLE...WILL SPREAD EAST ON SATURDAY AS WELL. THIS WILL ADD COMPRESSIONAL WARMING TO THE MIX. AM FCSTING TEMPS AT OR ABOVE THE CENTURY MARK WEST OF LINE FORM CHAPPELL TO VALENTINE. BETTER CHANCES FOR ABOVE 100 TEMPS IN THE FAR NWRN ZONES...WHERE SURFACE DRYNESS IS STILL AN ISSUE. FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD...MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CONTINUING TO BREAK DOWN WITH LOW AMPLITUDE WESTERLY FLOW...TRANSITIONING TO NORTHWESTERLY FLOW NEXT WEEK. A SERIES OF WAVES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD COMBINED WITH ANOTHER FRONTAL PASSAGE DURING MIDWEEK WILL BRING CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION TO THE REGION NEARLY EACH DAY. TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WILL BE COOLER BUT NEAR NORMAL AFTER A WARM WEEKEND AS THE REGION WILL BE NORTH OF THE FRONT. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL ACROSS THE TWEB ROUTES OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. CONVECTION FIRING ALONG A SOUTHWARD MOVING BOUNDARY ACROSS THE SANDHILLS INTO THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE WILL LEAD TO ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION. WIND GUSTS NEAR THESE STORMS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT TO LIGHT AIRCRAFT...THOUGH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND CIGS NEARING 4K FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGER STORMS THIS EVENING. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 24/BH/DP/CLB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 350 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2007 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-061200- 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- 350 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2007 /250 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...THE SANDHILLS AND INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...BUT AN ISOLATED CELL MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/LBF(ALL LOWERCASE) 13
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:01 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm outflow winds broke off a couple of large trees, took down power lines, overturned a beer truck on Highway 20 west of Ainsworth, and pushed over large storage tanks at the agricultural co-operative business in Ainsworth.
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, July 2007
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: 64671, 45154, 45155, 45157.