Scattered multicell storms developed across the western portion of the Nebraska Panhandle and then moved east producing large hail.
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The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
Scattered multicell storms developed across the western portion of the Nebraska Panhandle and then moved east producing large hail.
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 3, 1:18 PM MST, 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 318 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 2009 .DISCUSSION... DEEP SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE COVERS THE FCST AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND A SHORT WAVE IS ENTERING THE PANHANDLE SUGGESTING AN EARLY SHOW OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THE WAVE MOVES INTO EASTERN NEB THIS EVENING. THE SWODY1 OUTLOOK DELINEATES THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL QUITE WELL COVERING AREA THE AREA ALONG AND SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 20. INTENSE RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH STRONGEST STORMS AND THE AREA OF CONCERN FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES IS ALONG A WARM FRONT ACROSS FAR SRN NEB AND ALONG A DEVELOPING COLD FRONT ACROSS WRN NEB. OTHERWISE LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE ARE THE MAIN CONCERN. THE MEAN STORM MOTION OF EAST AT 20 MPH SUGGESTS THE FLOOD POTENTIAL WILL BE LIMITED TO CELL TRAINING...TOO LIMITED A THREAT TO ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXIT THE AREA SATURDAY MORNING. MORNING STRATUS SHOULD BURN OFF BY NOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP WEST AND NORTH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE FORECAST FOR SATURDAY NIGHT IS DRY WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING ACROSS THE REGION. THE NAM AND GFS THEN SUGGEST ANOTHER WEAK DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH EITHER SUNDAY MORNING OR SUNDAY NIGHT. THE NAM IS FASTER THAN THE GFS. LOW PRESSURE WILL BEGIN ORGANIZE ACROSS THE NRN PLAINS MONDAY AS A SUBTROPICAL RIDGE BEGINS TO AMPLIFY. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BEGIN MODERATING INTO THE LOWER 80S SUNDAY AND UPPER 80S MONDAY. TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...A SIZZLING HEAT WAVE DEVELOPS. BUT THERE IS A CAVEAT. THE GFS AND ECMWF ARE TRYING TO BRING A WEAK COLD FRONT THROUGH THE FCST ARE EITHER THURSDAY OR FRIDAY. THE ECMWF IS FASTER THAN THE GFS. THE INEVITABLE COLD FRONT COULD MAKE FOR A BRIEF HEAT WAVE VS A MULTI-DAY EVENT. THUS THURSDAY AND FRIDAYS FORECAST TEMPS ARE HIGHLY UNCERTAIN BUT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAYS MAX TEMPS SHOULD REACH INTO THE 90S. NO RAIN IS FCST UNTIL THE FRONT DROPS IN FRIDAY AS FCST BY THE SLOWER GFS. && .AVIATION... MARGINAL VISUAL FLIGHT RULES WILL BE SEEN THIS EVENING WITH CLOUDS TO LIFT BRIEFLY AS CONVECTION ROLES EAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT. OVERNIGHT THE FRONTAL SYSTEM ALONG THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA STATELINE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ALLOWING COOL CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE TO BUILD SOUTH. THE MOISTURE LADEN AIR WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR LOW CEILINGS AND AREAS OF FOG TO DEVELOP OVERNIGHT. THE STRATUS IS EXPECTED TO EXTEND THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST AREA BEFORE 04/10Z FOR IFR CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLY LIFR AT THE KVTN TERMINAL THROUGH 16Z. MODELS ALL POINT TOWARD THE LOWER CEILINGS AND INCLUDED IN CURRENT TERMINAL FORECAST FOR KLBF AND KVTN OVERNIGHT. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && CDC/TLK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 304 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 2009 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-041000- 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- 304 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 2009 /204 PM MDT FRI JUL 3 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 ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA TONIGHT. ISOLATED STORMS COULD ALSO REACH SEVERE LIMITS ACROSS THE WEST THIS EVENING AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES EAST. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CHAPPELL IN DEUEL COUNTY TO ANSELMO IN CUSTER COUNTY. THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT THIS EVENING WITH BE DAMAGING WINDS ALTHOUGH ISOLATED LARGE HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE. DEEP MOISTURE IS IN PLACE WHERE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EACH DAY. AFTER MONDAY...HOTTER AND DRIER CONDITIONS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BARTLETT IN WHEELER COUNTY...TO THEDFORD IN THOMAS COUNTY...AND TO CHAPPELL IN DEUEL COUNTY. && 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), 164 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:28 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The hail lasted for 10 minutes or more and was accompanied by strong winds.
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