A strong cold front brought windy conditions to Western and North Centra Nebraska on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008. Strong northwest winds of 25 to 35 mph with frequent gusts to 45 mph were common.
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The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
A strong cold front brought windy conditions to Western and North Centra Nebraska on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008. Strong northwest winds of 25 to 35 mph with frequent gusts to 45 mph were common. A few gusts exceeded 50 mph.
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 Mar 2, 2:41 AM CST, 9 hours 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 241 AM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 .DISCUSSION... WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES. COLD FRONT IS MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING WITH A STARK CONTRAST EXPECTED FOR TODAY FROM YESTERDAY/S NEAR RECORD TO RECORD HEAT WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S. N TO NW WINDS POST FRONTAL RAMPING UP SO FAR THIS MORNING...AND THIS IS AT TYPICAL TIME OF LEAST MIXING. ALL MOS GUIDANCE...ALONG WITH BUFKIT SOUNDINGS...SUGGESTING WINDS TO INCREASE TO ADV CRITERIA EARLY THIS MORNING. SEE NO REASONS TO DOUBT THIS WITH UPSTREAM OBS GUSTY...THUS HAVE HOISTED A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE DAY...12Z TO 00Z. ALONG WITH WINDS WILL BE SOME LIGHT PRECIPITATION. RADAR UPSTREAM NOT SHOWING EXPANSIVE COVERAGE WITH RETURNS SO FAR...AND LOWER LEVELS FAIRLY DRY. WILL HAVE TO SATURATE TOP DOWN AND THIS WILL LIMIT QPF AMOUNTS...AND MODELS HANDLING THIS WELL. NAM/GFS SHOW 700 MB FRONTO BAND MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL NEB THIS AFTERNOON AND EXPECT THIS TO BE THE BEST CHANCE AT MEASURING. SOUNDINGS COOL COLUMN QUICKLY SUGGESTING PRECIP TYPE TO BE SNOW ABOVE THE SURFACE...HOWEVER SURF TEMPS TO BE IN THE UPPER 30S TO LOWER 40S...SO WILL GO WITH A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW. MOISTURE/LIFT QUICKLY EXITS THE REGION THIS EVENING. WINDS LIKELY TO DIMINISH BY SUNSET...BUT MAY HOLD ON IN THE EASTERN ZONES A LITTLE PAST IF LIGHT PRECIP LINGERS ALLOWING STRONGER WINDS ALOFT TO MIX DOWN. DAY SHIFT WILL MAKE THE DECISION WITH AFTERNOON PACKAGE. OVERNIGHT SURFACE HIGH WILL BUILD ACROSS THE NORTH PLAINS WHILE A STATIONARY LEE SIDE TROF DEVELOPS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE. TEMPS EXPECTED TO FALL AS SKIES CLEAR PRODUCE GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING. UPPER LEVEL PATTERN REMAINS TO BE NORTHWEST FLOW WITH NEXT WAVE TO ARRIVE LATE IN THE DAY ON TUESDAY...WITH ANOTHER WAVE BY FRIDAY. WARM UP EXPECTED AHEAD OF EACH WAVE...ALTHOUGH NOT NEARLY AS WARM AS YESTERDAY...HIGHS REACHING INTO THE MID 40S TO MID 50S...BEFORE COOLING BACK INTO UPPER 30S TO MID 40S. THE SHORT WAVES/COLD FRONTS TO PUSH ACROSS THE FA WITH LIMITED MOISTURE TO WORK WITH...AND WILL CONTINUE SLGHT CHANCE POPS BASED ON MODEL BLEND AND PREVIOUS FORECAST FOR TIMING. && .AVIATION... VERY WINDY CONDITIONS AND WIDESPREAD CLOUDINESS...ASSOCIATED WITH AN EXITING COLD FRONT...IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH 06Z TONIGHT. GUSTY NORTHWESTERLY WINDS...WITH SURFACE WIND GUSTS APPG 38 KTS ARE FORECAST AT BOTH THE LBF AND VTN TERMINALS TODAY THROUGH 00Z. FROM 00Z TO 12Z MONDAY...LOOK FOR WINDS TO DIMINISH TO 10 TO 20 KTS THIS EVENING...FOLLOWED BY 5 TO 15 KT WINDS OVERNIGHT. FOR THE BULK OF THE NEXT 24 HOURS...MAINLY VFR CEILINGS ARE FORECAST. CEILINGS WILL DIP TO 2 TO 3 THOUSAND FEET FROM 15Z TO 20Z AT KVTN AND FROM 18Z TO 24Z AT KLBF. THE DROP IN CEILINGS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY RAIN AND LIGHT SNOW...WITH REDUCED VISIBILITIES DOWN TO 3 MILES. AFTER 00Z THIS EVENING...DRY CONDITIONS...VFR CEILINGS AND LIGHTER WINDS ARE FORECAST. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...WIND ADVISORY FROM 6 AM CST /5 AM MST/ THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094. && MASEK/CLB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 414 AM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-031100- 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- 414 AM CST SUN MAR 2 2008 /314 AM MST SUN MAR 2 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH 6 PM CST (5 PM MST) THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE LIKELY TODAY ACROSS ALL OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO SUBSIDE AFTER SUNSET THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION TO WIND...SOME LIGHT SNOW MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NORTH PLATTE TO BROKEN BOW. THOUGH ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE VERY LIGHT...BLOWING SNOW IS POSSIBLE...REDUCING VISIBILITIES AS LOW AS A MILE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. 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 CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE CLB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Northwest wind gusts measured 58 mph from a Nebraska Department of Roads anemometer located along U.S. Highway 183 near Rose, Nebraska.
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