Scattered thunderstorms developed over western Nebraska and produced small hail and wind gusts as they moved southeast.
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Scattered thunderstorms developed over western Nebraska and produced small hail and wind gusts as they moved southeast.
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 2, 2:09 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 309 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2009 .DISCUSSION... DISTINCT SHORT WAVE CROSSING WY THIS AFTN HAS TRIGGERED SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SERN MT AND SWRN SD. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE ATTEMPTING TO MOVE OFF THE ROCKIES IN SERN WY AND ERN COLO WITHOUT SUCCESS. HIGHEST CONFIDENCE FCST WOULD BE FOR A MCS TO FORM OFF THE BLACK HILLS THIS EVENING WHICH WOULD MOVE ESE ALONG OR NEAR THE NEB SD BORDER PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 03Z WITH LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE...MAINLY ACROSS SRN SD. FARTHER SOUTH...NO CAP IS IN PLACE BUT MID AND UPPER LEVEL LAPSE RATES APPEAR TO BE LESS STEEP PREVENTING SEVERE STORMS FROM DEVELOPING. THE BLENDED SOLNS OF THE NAM AND GFS SUGGESTED THE BEST RAIN CHANCES ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 61 THIS EVENING AND ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 2 OVERNIGHT. THERE IS SIGNIFICANT UNCERTAINTY ELSEWHERE AS A SEPARATE 850MB WARM FRONT IS FCST TO DEVELOP ALONG THE KS NEB BORDER TONIGHT AND IT APPEARS THE INGREDIENTS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ARE IN PLACE ACROSS SRN NEB BUT ALL MODELS ARE DRY ACROSS SWRN NEB TONIGHT. TWO MCSS COULD FORM TONIGHT NEAR THE SD AND KS BORDERS. THE SD MCS IS THE MOST LIKELY OF THE TWO. THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ACROSS WY THIS AFTN IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND SLOWLY TRACK EAST ACROSS SD FRIDAY PRODUCING MULTICELL NON-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL DROP THROUGH WRN NEB IN THE WAKE OF THE SYSTEM ACTING AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SRN AND CNTL NEB. SPC SUGGESTED SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS WRN AND SRN NEB. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...WINDS ALOFT WILL REMAIN STRONG IN A WEST NORTHWEST FLOW CIRCULATING AROUND AND AMPLIFYING UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CENTERED OVER TEXAS. A STATIONARY FRONT WILL BE DRAPED ACROSS NRN KS ALLOWING MOISTURE TO FUNNEL NWWD ONTO THE WRN HIGH PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE IN THE DAY OR AT NIGHT ACROSS THE FCST AREA AS A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS WY AND THROUGH NEB. HPC SUGGESTED 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. THIS IS WETTER THAN ALL OF THE MODELS WHICH SHOWED A CONSENSUS OF ABOUT HALF THAT AMOUNT. MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...A HEAT WAVE DEVELOPS ACROSS THE CNTL U.S.. A POWERFUL UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE CNTL PLAINS IN RESPONSE TO LOWERING HEIGHTS ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. PERSISTENT LOW PRESSURE WILL FORM ACROSS THE NRN PLAINS ACTING TO DRAW HOT DESERT AIR NORTH AND EAST ACROSS THE PLAINS. ALL INDICATIONS ARE THE ATM WILL REMAIN CAPPED DURING THE DAY WITH JUST ISOLATED STORMS DEVELOPING DURING THE EVENING OR AT NIGHT. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BEGIN MARCHING INTO THE 90S TUESDAY AND CONTINUE RISING A COUPLE OF DEGREES EACH DAY WITH MID AND UPPER 90S POSSIBLE BY THURSDAY. NEBRASKA WILL REMAIN ON THE NRN PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE SO THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A WEAK COLD FRONT TO DROP INTO NRN NEB PERHAPS THURSDAY. OTHERWISE THE NEW RUNS OF THE GFS AND ECMWF HAVE TRENDED WARMER AND H10-5 THICKNESSES ARE FCST TO RISE TO 588DM BY NEXT THURSDAY. THIS COULD PRODUCE 100F HIGHS SO ADDITIONAL ADJUSTMENTS TO THE FCST TEMPERATURES ARE QUITE POSSIBLE. && .AVIATION... VISUAL FLIGHT RULES WILL CONTINUE FOR TERMINALS KLBF AND KVTN THROUGH 18Z SATURDAY. MODELS CONTINUE TO HAVE SLIGHT PROBLEMS IN RESOLVING CONVECTIVE QPF AS DESTABILIZATION OCCURS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED WEST ALONG THE FRONT RANGE AND NEAR THE BLACK HILLS. NAM12 IS PICKING UP ON SOME OF THIS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION NEAR THE KVTN TERMINAL AT 00Z THIS EVENING. THEN OVERNIGHT AS SEVERAL DISTURBANCES LIFT NORTHEAST CONVECTION ROLLS OFF THE HIGH PLAINS AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH BEST CHANCE FOR HIGH BASED CONVECTION ACROSS THE NORTH TO INCLUDE THE KVTN TERMINAL OVERNIGHT FROM 09Z TO 15Z. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && CDC/TLK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 338 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2009 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-031000- 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- 338 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2009 /238 PM MDT THU JUL 2 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EASTERN PANHANDLE AND SANDHILLS REGION OF WESTERN NEBRASKA TONIGHT. SEVERAL DISTURBANCES WILL BE LIFTING NORTHEAST FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP WITH A FEW STORMS CAPABLE OF REACHING SEVERE LIMITS. STRONG WINDS AND ISOLATED LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH A FEW OF THE STORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE IN CHERRY COUNTY...TO NORTH PLATTE IN LINCOLN COUNTY AND OGALLALA IN KEITH COUNTY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FURTHER TO THE EAST AND SOUTH BUT ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EACH DAY. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE AGAIN FRIDAY EVENING ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING ACROSS THE WEST. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE KECK
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:08 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph broke off two large tree branches.
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