Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over southwestern Nebraska during the early evening hours. This activity was in association with a stalled out area of low pressure extending from northeastern to southwestern Nebraska.
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The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over southwestern Nebraska during the early evening hours. This activity was in association with a stalled out area of low pressure extending from northeastern to southwestern Nebraska.
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 7, 2:09 PM CST, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 309 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS LOCATED OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS /SITUATED AT 19Z FROM KONL SOUTHWEST TO KIML/...WITH MARGINALLY STEEP MID LVL LAPSE RATES AND A MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER AIRMASS RESIDING ALONG THE FRONT. A THUNDERSTORM HAS FORMED ALONG THE BOUNDARY JUST NORTH OF KONL...WITH ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE SOUTHWEST ALONG THE FRONT THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY AIDED BY THE APPROACH OF SEVERAL MID/UPR LVL WAVES ALIGNED FROM THE DAKOTAS SOUTHWEST INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES. THE FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE EAST AND SOUTH OF THE REGION AS THE UPPER WAVE CONTINUES PROGRESSING EAST...WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER AND LESS HUMID CONDITIONS SETTLING INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS WITHIN THE POST FRONTAL AIRMASS. && .DISCUSSION... WEAK HIGH PRESSURE IS FCST TO SAG SOUTH INTO NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BEHIND THE DEPARTING SFC FRONT THROUGH TUESDAY. THIS HIGH THEN DRIFTS EAST INTO TUESDAY NIGHT...WITH EAST/SOUTHEAST SFC WINDS DEVELOPING ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA. THIS PATTERN WILL FAVOR A CONTINUATION OF SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL HIGH TEMPERATURES ON TUESDAY. THE MID LVL AIRMASS REMAINS FAVORABLY COOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERATELY STEEP LAPSE RATES BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. NAM AND GFS DEVELOP QPF OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWA AS A S/W TROUGH OVER THE DAKOTAS PASSES ACROSS THE PLAINS /STORMS MAY BE FOCUSED ALONG A SUBTLE SFC WAVE WHERE DESTABILIZATION AND LOW LVL CONVERGENCE BECOME MAXIMIZED/...THUS FOCUSED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY SOUTH OF A RUSHVILLE TO BROKEN BOW LINE WHERE FCST SOUNDINGS DEPICT THE BEST THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTIVE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST. UPR TROUGHS CONSOLIDATE OVER THE GRT LAKES REGION ON WEDNESDAY...AND THEN EXIT EAST WHILE MID LVL HEIGHTS RISE SLIGHTLY OVER THE GREAT PLAINS. THE WEST/NORTHWEST UPR LVL FLOW APPEARS TO RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LEE TROUGH...WITH A TRANSITION TO SOUTHERLY LOW LVL FLOW ACROSS THE CWA BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES RESPOND UPWARDS...TRENDING BACK TOWARD MORE NORMAL DAYTIME HIGHS. DURING WEDNESDAY NIGHT...850-700MB SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW STRENGTHENS ACROSS THE REGION AS A MIGRATORY DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN MANITOBA/ONTARIO. THIS INCREASING LOW LVL FLOW FOCUSES WAA OVER OUR NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES...WHICH COINCIDES WITH THE ADVECTION OF AN EML EAST ACROSS NORTHERN NEBRASKA. THEREFORE INTRODUCED POPS OVER THE NORTHEASTERN QUARTER OF THE CWA. SFC LOW PRESSURE IS THEN FCST TO DEVELOP ON THURSDAY OVER THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS AHEAD OF A S/W TROUGH /WHICH IS CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA PER LATEST WV IMAGERY/. THIS WILL FAVOR STRENGTHENING SOUTHERLY FLOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS AND WARMER DAYTIME HIGHS /LWR TO MID 90S/. AS THE UPR WAVE MOVES ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS ON FRIDAY...THE SFC FRONT IS FCST TO ADVANCE SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE CWA...WITH SOUTH/SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW CONTINUING ACROSS THE REGION...FAVORING HOT TEMPERATURES ONCE AGAIN. MID LVL TEMPERATURES WILL BECOME VERY WARM...AND THIS FAVORS A STRONG CAP TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE APPROACHING SFC FRONT FRIDAY AFTERNOON/NIGHT...THUS KEPT FCST DRY. THE ECMWF AND GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH SLIDING THE SFC FRONT SLIGHTLY SOUTH AND EAST OF THE CWA ON SATURDAY...WITH EASTERLY COMPONENT TO THE SFC FLOW FAVORING MUCH COOLER DAYTIME HIGHS. MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW WILL RESIDE ACROSS THE CWA...AND LOW LVL WAA OCCURRING NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY OVER KANSAS COMBINED WITH STEEP MID LVL LAPSE RATES WARRANTS AN INTRODUCTION OF POPS FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON. A LOW LVL JET THEN STRENGTHENS SATURDAY NIGHT...AND THIS WOULD POTENTIALLY FAVOR AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE. PREVIOUS FCST HANDLES THIS WELL...SO ONLY MADE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. THE CWA THEN BECOMES SANDWICHED BETWEEN AN AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE TO THE NORTH/NORTHEAST...AND LOW PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS. THIS ALLOWS MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW TO PERSIST INTO SUNDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE CWA. GIVEN THE PRESENCE OF THIS SYNOPTIC PATTERN...WILL CONTINUE POPS INTO SUNDAY AFTERNOON/NIGHT. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THE NEXT 24 HOURS AT KVTN...AS COLD FRONT ALREADY PASSED THROUGH THE TERMINAL. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO FIRE ALONG/AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THIS EVENING...AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO MOVE ACROSS THE KLBF TERMINAL. ONLY A BROKEN LINE OF STORMS EXPECTED ALONG THE FRONT...THUS HAVE -SHRA WITH CB ATTACHED TO CLOUDS ATTM. WILL MONITOR HOW THE STORMS DEVELOP AND WILL AMEND TAF IF NEEDED ONCE CONFIDENCE IS HIGHER THAT TERMINAL AREA WILL SEE IMPACT OF STORMS. ANY STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REDUCE CONDITIONS TO MVFR WITH CIGS AND/OR VSBY. HEAVY RAIN MAY BRIEFLY REDUCE VSBY TO IFR CONDITIONS. ONCE FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE KLBF TERMINAL...CLEARING SKIES ARE EXPECTED. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && MASEK/GARNER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 332 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2008 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-082045- 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- 332 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2008 /232 PM MDT MON JUL 7 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE REGION. THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN WILL BE TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM AINSWORTH TO NORTH PLATTE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS AS A SERIES OF WEAK WAVES MOVE ACROSS THE STATE. AT THIS TIME THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. AFTER A BRIEF BREAK IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...THE NEXT FRONTAL SYSTEM AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...EAST OF A LINE FROM AINSWORTH TO NORTH PLATTE. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE MASEK
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:30 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A house antenna was damaged by the thunderstorm wind gusts.
The hail, along with 70 mph winds severely damaged corn crops.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, July 2008
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: 111840, 111841.