An isolated thunderstorm in northeast Colorado collapsed as it moved into western Chase County and produced strong winds.
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An isolated thunderstorm in northeast Colorado collapsed as it moved into western Chase County and produced strong 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 Jun 16, 1:06 AM MST, 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 306 AM CDT MON JUN 16 2008 .SYNOPSIS... UPR LVL RIDGE AXIS EXTENDS NORTH TO SOUTH OVER THE ROCKIES...WITH A BROAD BELT OF CYCLONIC FLOW OVER THE EASTERN CONUS. A 90 KT UPR LVL JET RESIDES OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS...WITH RRQ AND AREA OF UPR LVL DIVG SITUATED OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. THIS COMBINED WITH UPSLOPE EASTERLY FLOW RESULTED IN SFC BASED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WY/NEB PANHANDLE DURING SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS HAVE DISSIPATED AS THE BOUNDARY LAYER STABILIZED...BUT A RENEWED AREA OF ELEVATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN NEB WITHIN A ZONE OF LOW/MID LVL FRONTOGENESIS /EVIDENT BY STRONG UNIDIRECTIONAL SHEAR PROFILES OBSERVED IN AREA PROFILERS/. && .DISCUSSION... 700 MB FGEN AND WEAK ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE ON THE 310K SFC /ALIGNED FROM ROUGHLY KAIA/KSNY TO KBBW/ ARE FCST TO PERSIST INTO EARLY MONDAY AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL FAVOR CONTINUED SHOWER/EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THIS WILL ALSO RESULT IN WIDESPREAD CLOUD COVER...LEADING TO COOLER DAYTIME HIGHS THAN PREVIOUSLY ANTICIPATED. SHORT TERM MODEL GUIDANCE ALSO FCSTS SFC HIGH PRESSURE TO BE CENTERED FURTHER WEST THAN PAST RUNS /NOW EXPECTED OVER EASTERN NEB/. THIS APPEARS TO PREVENT STRONG INFLUX OF LOW LVL MOISTURE ONTO THE HIGH PLAINS...AND INHIBITS BOUNDARY LAYER DESTABILIZATION. FOR THIS REASON...PULLED THE SMALL POPS FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON OVER FAR WESTERN NEB/EASTERN PANHANDLE. LOW CLOUDS ARE THEN FCST TO PERSIST INTO MONDAY NIGHT...WHICH SHOULD KEEP OVERNIGHT LOWS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. LACK OF SYNOPTIC/MESOSCALE DESTABILIZATION PROCESSES MONDAY NIGHT...ALONG WITH LIMITED ELEVATED INSTABILITY SUGGESTS DECREASING CHANCES FOR NOCTURNAL CONVECTION. THE NAM SHOWS A MID LVL WAVE MOVING AROUND THE ROCKIES RIDGE AND CROSSING NEB TUESDAY MORNING/AFTERNOON. THIS WAVE APPEARS TO FOCUS CONVECTION OVER THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE CWA. HOWEVER...THE TIMING AND LOCATION OF THIS WAVE BY THE GFS IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT...LEADING TO FCST UNCERTAINTY WITH REGARD TO SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL OVER NORTHERN NEB ON TUESDAY. FOR THIS REASON...WILL HOLD OFF INTRODUCING HIGHER POPS. OTHERWISE...PARTIAL CLOUDINESS IS AGAIN EXPECTED ON TUESDAY OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA...WHICH WILL LIMIT HIGH TEMPERATURES TO THE MID/UPR 70S. MOIST LOW LVL ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE TUESDAY NIGHT WILL LIKELY RESULT IN SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MAINLY THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWA. SOUTHEASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW CONTINUES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...WITH SLIGHTLY BETTER RETURN OF LOW LVL MOISTURE DEPICTED BY THE GFS. IT APPEARS THAT ANY AFTERNOON CONVECTION WILL BE CONFINED OVER FAR WESTERN COUNTIES...LIKELY INITIATING OVER WY/PANHANDLE SINCE BOUNDARY LAYER DESTABILIZATION IS NOT FCST TO BE VERY STRONG OVER WESTERN NEB. MID LVL LAPSE RATES AND DEEP LAYER SHEAR ARE FCST TO BE STRONG...SO SVR THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. GFS AND ECMWF THEN FCST A MODERATELY STRONG MID LVL S/W TROUGH MOVING EAST/SOUTHEAST TOWARDS THE CENTRAL PLAINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. LOW LVL WAA INCREASES IN RESPONSE TO THE APPROACHING MID LVL DISTURBANCE...WHICH WOULD FAVOR GREATER THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE. THUS...BUMPED UP POPS ACCORDINGLY. STRONG LOW/MID LVL WAA CONTINUES TO FOCUS SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. DUE TO UNCERTAINTY IN THE EXACT TIMING/EVOLUTION OF THIS NEXT WAVE...WILL NOT MODIFY POPS TOO MUCH AFTER 18Z THURSDAY...ESPECIALLY SINCE GFS APPEARS TO SUFFER GREATLY FROM CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK BEGINNING 00Z FRIDAY. && .AVIATION... MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE CURRENTLY CROSSING THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTHERN SANDHILLS INTO SWRN NEBRASKA TIL 16Z. CURRENT RADAR TREND INDICATE NEED FOR AT LEAST A TEMPO -SHRA FM 08Z THROUGH 14Z FOR TAF SITE KLBF. DRIER AIR BLW 800 MB INDICATES WIND GUSTS TO 35KTS MAY ACCOMPANY THE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. VFR CIGS TO PREVAIL THROUGH 06Z TUESDAY OF THE TAF PERIOD. KVTN WILL REMAIN NORTH OF SHOWER ACTIVITY WITH ONLY SCT-BKN120. SFC WINDS TO VEER TO THE SOUTHEAST BY 15Z AND REMAIN NEAR 14009KT WITH LIMITED GUST POTENTIAL. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && GARNER/ROBERG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 332 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2008 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-162045- 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 SUN JUN 15 2008 /232 PM MDT SUN JUN 15 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO LIMITED INSTABILITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH FRIDAY. AS A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES TOP AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ROCKIES AND MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS...A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST EACH DAY. ALTHOUGH THE SEVERITY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IS UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME...THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES WILL BE MOST FAVORABLE FOR CONTAINING HEAVY RAINFALL. .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 Goodland radar (KGLD), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:58 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong outflow winds from thunderstorms broke off 18 power poles, overturned 10 center pivot irrigation systems, and snapped trees.
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