An isolated thunderstorm developed over Chase County in dry air producing severe winds.
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An isolated thunderstorm developed over Chase County in dry air producing severe winds.
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 Sep 16, 1:32 PM MST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 332 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 2007 .DISCUSSION... .SHORT TERM DISCUSSION... FOR THE PERIOD TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY.. SCATTERED TO ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK NORTHEAST TONIGHT ACROSS NWRN HALF OF FORECAST AREA WHILE ISOLATED POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN AREAS. THIS IN RESPONSE TO A MID LEVEL IMPULSE. CURRENTLY SCATTERED COVERAGE FROM NWRN AND NCTRL CO INTO SERN WYOMING. THESE CHCS WILL CARRY INTO MONDAY AS LEAD IMPULSE EXITS THE AREA AND MAIN IMPULSE APPROACHES FOR MONDAY NIGHT. HIGHS MONDAY AGAIN WELL ABOVE NORMAL AT 85 TO 90 DEGREES. BEST CHANCES FOR MEASURABLE RAIN WILL BE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. AS SRN STREAM IMPULSE MOVES ACROSS AND PHASES WITH NRN STREAM IMPULSE...CHCS TO BE BEST ACROSS NERN FORECAST AREA LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. TUESDAY HIGHS TO BE CONSIDERABLY COOLER BEHIND FROPA MONDAY NIGHT. HAVE LOWERED HIGHS ABOUT 8 TO 10 DEGREES FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST AS GFS AND NAM INDICATE HIGHS NCTRL TO BE IN THE LOWER 70S. DRY TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WITH HIGHS REBOUNDING INTO THE LOWER 80S WITH SOME MID 80S FAR SW. WARM FRONTAL PUSH EASTWARD IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANOTHER WEAK DISTURBANCE MAY TRIGGER ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .LONG TERM DISCUSSION... WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...WARM FRONTAL PUSH EASTWARD IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANOTHER WEAK DISTURBANCE MAY TRIGGER ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. PERSISTENT SWRLY FLOW ALOFT WILL DRAWN WARM DRY AIR IN FROM SWRN U.S WITH HIGHS EACH DAY MAINLY IN THE MID 80S. THIS WOULD BE ABOUT 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. CONCERNING MEDIUM RANGE MODELS...THE ECMWF HAS BEEN THE MOST CONSISTENT BRINGING CLOSED LOW TO NEAR NWRN AZ 12Z SAT THEN LIFTING THE LOW QUICKLY NORTHEAST TO THE WRN DAKOTAS BY 12Z SUNDAY. WHILE THIS WOULD SUGGEST POSSIBLE WX FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...LOW CONFIDENCE WILL KEEP DAYS 6 AND 7 DRY THIS FCST PKG. && .AVIATION... VFR FCST FOR KLBF AND KVTN THROUGH 18Z MONDAY. TSRA CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS WESTERN NEB AND EASTERN CO. AT THIS TIME...TSRA ARE PROGGED TO STAY JUST NW OF KVTN AND KLBF. BY 15Z MONDAY...TSRA BEGIN TO BECOME MORE LIKELY AT THE TERMINALS SO A FEW POCKETS OF MVFR WILL BE POSSIBLE UNDER PREVAILING VFR CONDITIONS. FG AND STRATUS WILL IMPACT EASTERN PORTIONS OF TWB098 AFTER 6Z. .FIRE WEATHER DISCUSSION...VERY WARM AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE ERN PNHDL AND WRN CHERRY COUNTY TIL EARLY THIS EVENING. WITH GRASS FUEL BEING CURED...FIRE DANGER WILL BE VERY HIGH. HOWEVER...WIND IS LIKELY TO REMAIN BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS AND CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE MENTIONED AREA EARLY THIS EVENING. BY THAT TIME THOUGH...HUMIDITY WILL BE INCREASING AND WIND SHOULD BE TAPERING OF TO 10 TO 15 MPH. FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK...SLIGHTLY LOWER TEMPERATURES AND HIGHER HUMIDITY WILL REDUCE THE FIRE DANGER. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && KAR/JMC
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 336 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 2007 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-171130- 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- 336 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 2007 /236 PM MDT SUN SEP 16 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE EASTERN PANHANDLE THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL SLOWLY SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES THE MAIN HAZARD. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS ON MONDAY WITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STORMS IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY...THEN AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. .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 JMC
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:17 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The outflow winds broke off a power pole on the west side of town and also numerous tree limbs.
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