Thunderstorms moved across mainly northern LBF CWA with severe hail and wind reports and an isolated tornado confirmed across Custer county. Numerous reports of wind damage received with gusts up to 70 knots estimated by storm chaser.
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The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
Thunderstorms moved across mainly northern LBF CWA with severe hail and wind reports and an isolated tornado confirmed across Custer county. Numerous reports of wind damage received with gusts up to 70 knots estimated by storm chaser.
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 6, 1:23 PM MST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 323 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE IS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL AND WIND POTENTIAL OVER THE NEXT 36 HOURS... .DISCUSSION... NEAR TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)...AS HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS...THE HUNDRED DOLLAR QUESTION IS IF...WHEN...AND WHERE THE CAP WILL BREAK OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. AS OF 1 PM CDT...DRY LINE EXTENDED FROM KIMBALL...TO JUST WEST OF IMPERIAL...TO JUST EAST OF GOODLAND. EXPLOSIVE SURFACE CYCLOGENESIS UNDERWAY ACROSS EASTERN WYOMING AND THE WESTERN NEBR PANHANDLE. SURFACE LOW AS OF 1 PM CDT LOCATED OVER BOX BUTTE COUNTY...WHICH CORRELATES WELL WITH THE LOCATION AND FCST INTENSITY AS DEPICTED IN THE NAM 18Z FCST FROM THE 12Z RUN THIS AM. AS FOR CAP STRENGTH...H5 TEMPS IN THE 18Z SOUNDING AT -6.7 C...WHICH IS RIGHT ON TRACK WITH THE NAM 12S 18Z FCST. ONE CAVEAT IS THE DEW POINT FCST...WITH SFC DEW POINTS DEPICTED 1-3F TOO HIGH IN THE NAM FCST. CAP STRENGTH SEEMS TO BE MUCH STRONGER THAN FCSTED...THANKS TO THE LACK OF SFC HEATING THIS AFTN (DENSE CIRRUS SHIELD). THREAT FOR CONVECTION INITIATION SEEMS TO LIE IN THE 4-7 PM TIME FRAME...WHEN THE DRYLINE SURGE IS AT ITS STRONGEST AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE WILL NEED TO BE AT ITS PEAK TO OVERCOME THE MID LEVEL CAP. FORECAST TRACK OF THIS FEATURE...PLACES IT FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF LBF INTO SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY. BY 21Z...THE CAP WEAKENS FROM WESTERN CHERRY...INTO CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY...TO LESS THAN 20 J/KG. GIVEN THE GROSS UNDERESTIMATION OF THE CAP STRENGTH IN THE NAM COMPARED TO THE 18Z LBF SOUNDING...PROBABLY LOOKING AT LATER INITIATION ALONG THE COLD FRONT VS. SOONER ALONG THE DRYLINE. ALSO...CIRROSTRATUS FIELD HAS THROWN A MONKEY IN THE WRENCH AS WELL. TEMPS THIS AFTN...HAVE FALLEN WELL SHORT OF THE FCSTED LWR 90S. STILL APPEARS BEST CHANCES FOR ORGANIZED CONVECTION IS IN THE ERN ZONES AS THE COLD FRONT AND UPPR LVL COOLING CATCHES UP TO THE DRYLINE EARLY THIS EVENING. HAVE INCREASED POPS IN THE EAST AND LOWERED SLIGHTLY IN THE WEST. AFTER TONIGHT...FORECAST FOCUS SHIFTS TO WIND POTENTIAL FOR TOMORROW. H85 WINDS ACCELERATE TO 40 TO 50 KTS BY MID MORNING...WITH NEARLY DRY ADIABATIC LAPSE RATES SPREADING EAST FROM THE PANHANDLE DURING THE DAY. ODDS ARE WE WILL NEED SOME SORT OF WIND HEADLINE FOR TOMORROW. HOWEVER TO AVOID CONFUSION...AM INCLINED TO LET THE ONGOING WIND ADVISORY AND POTENTIAL CONVECTIVE WATCHES GO BEFORE A WIND ADVISORY OR HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED. AS THE UPPR LOW TRAVERSES SOUTH DAKOTA TOMORROW...RETAINED LOW POPS IN THE NORTH FOR WRAPAROUND PRECIPITATION. LONG TERM (FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...NOT MANY LARGE SCALE CHANGES MADE TO THE ONGOING EXTENDED PACKAGE. TRENDED TEMPS DOWN FOR FRIDAY MORNING...AS DRIER AIR EXPECTED TO WORK INTO THE CWA ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE EXITING COLD FRONT THURSDAY. GUIDANCE TEMPS INDICATING UPPR 30S TO LWR 40S...SO NOT OVERLY CONCERNED ABOUT FROST POTENTIAL AT THIS POINT. AFTER FRIDAY...PATTERN WILL SHIFT TO ZONAL...THEN SOUTHWESTERLY. TRENDED TEMPS UP FURTHER AND KEPT PRECIP IN THE FCST. && AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS OVER WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON WITH DENSE CIRRUS. SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS 25KTS EAST OF A LINE FROM VTN TO OGA WITH GUSTS TO 35KTS THRU 3Z. DRYLINE TO PUSH THROUGH LBF 20Z AND VTN 23Z WITH STRONG CAP. HAVE INTRODUCED HIGH BASED (10K FT) TRW ISOLATED 02Z-06Z ALONG FROPA. IFR CONDITIONS KANW-KONL-KBBW TRW CIGS AND VIS 6Z-10Z ALONG TWB098. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 10 PM CDT WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENING. ZONES NEZ005>010-025>029-036>038-057>059-069>071. && CLB/POWER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 337 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-072045- 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- 337 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007 /237 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHWEST NEBRASKA THIS EVENING WEST OF A LINE FROM MERRIMAN TO ELLSWORTH WITH THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TONIGHT NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM KILGORE TO BURWELL TO BARTLETT. A POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT. THE MAIN THREAT WITH STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. TO THE SOUTH AND WEST THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REMAINDER OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. WARM AIR ALOFT IS INHIBITING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP THEY ARE CAPABLE OF EXPLOSIVE DEVELOPMENT AND CAN BECOME SEVERE QUICKLY. THE MAIN THREAT WITH STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. STRONG WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A WIND ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE POWER
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 156 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:58 UTC.
5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm outflow winds uprooted and broke off numerous large trees, tore off part of the roof of the Local Pride packing plant, took down power lines, and damaged the siding and sign for the Ideal grocery store on the south side of Gordon.
Two center pivots over-turned and damaged.
Brief touchdown with no damage or injuries reported.
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