Slow moving thunderstorms with very heavy rain produced flash flooding during the late afternoon and early evening hours.
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Slow moving thunderstorms with very heavy rain produced flash flooding during the late afternoon and early evening hours.
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 28, 1:53 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 253 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 2009 .SYNOPSIS... WEAK SFC HIGH AXIS EXTENDS ACROSS WRN NEBR INTO CNTRL KS. SFC WINDS FROM THE SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS ERN CO INTO WRN NEBR. SFC MOISTURE IS INCREASING INTO SWRN NEBR WITH LEADING EDGE OF CUMULUS FIELD. WCNTRL NEBR HAS BEEN UNDER MOCLDY SKIES TDY WITH A BKN070 DECK. H7 WAA. STILL EXPECT A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS TO DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO WCTRL AND SWRN NEBR LATE THIS AFTN AND EVENING. DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM DISCUSSION (TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY). TONIGHT...INSTABILITY FROM 1000-2000 J/KG SFC BASED SHOWN BY THE NAM12 AND RUC13 EARLY THIS EVENING GENERALLY NEAR AND SOUTH OF HWY 2 AND WEST OF BROKEN BOW. A WEAK DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM NWRN NEBR SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO TRIGGER AT LEAST ISOLATED TSTMS POSSIBLY ACROSS THE HYANNIS THROUGH THEDFORD CORRIDOR FROM WHICH ACTIVITY SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST. ANOTHER AREA TO MONITOR WILL BE NERN CO/FAR SWRN NEBR WHERE STRONGER HEATING AND PRESENT CU FIELD HAS NOW DEVELOPED ISOLATED SHOWERS OR STORMS. A STORM OR TWO COULD PRESENT LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. ALL ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH OR END AFTER MIDNIGHT. UPPER RIDGE WILL STRENGTHEN MONDAY ACROSS THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. UPPER LOW OVER THE GREAT LAKES WILL BRING NORTHWEST FLOW TO THE REGION THROUGH TUESDAY. AS MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY RETURN...THIS IS A FAVORABLE PATTERN FOR NOCTURNAL MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM (MCS) EACH NIGHT. FAVORED AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT IS THE BLACK HILLS REGION WITH STORM MOTION SOUTHEAST ACROSS WRN NEBR. HAVE INCREASED TO A LOW CHC POPS ACROSS THE WEST FOR BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES MONDAY WILL WARM FURTHER TO NEAR 90 WITH LOWER 90S SOUTHWEST. THEN A BACKDOOR COLD FRONT MONDAY NIGHT IS FORECAST TO BRING COOLER HIGHS TUESDAY TO THE NORTHEAST ERN HALF FROM THE LOWER 80S NORTHEAST AND MID 80S CNTRL SECTIONS. FAR SWRN NEAR IML WILL AGAIN REACH THE LOWER 90S. ON WEDNESDAY...SIMILAR PATTERN HOLD WITH UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CENTER NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS WHILE AN UPPER LOW MOVES INTO SASKATCHEWAN CANADA. HIGHS TO RANGE FROM NEAR 85 NORTHEAST TO NEAR 95 FAR SOUTHWEST. FAST WESTERLIES WILL BE PRESENT ACROSS THE DAKOTAS WITH NORTHWEST FLOW STILL INTACT ACROSS NEBR. ANOTHER MCS DEVELOPMENT STILL FAVORABLE ONCE AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WILL KEEP POPS IN SLIGHT CHC RANGE HOWEVER. EXTENDED DISCUSSION (THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)...UPPER FLOW WILL TURN MORE ZONAL AS UPPER RIDGE IS SHUNTED SOUTHEAST INTO TEXAS. TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN TO SEASONABLE MID AND UPPER 80S THURSDAY/FRIDAY WITH LOWER TO MID 80S SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. PATTERN SUGGESTS WEATHER WILL BECOME MORE ACTIVE AS SFC LOW RESIDES TO OUR SOUTH ACROSS KANSAS AND ABUNDANT SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE COULD SPAWN POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AT TIMES. AVIATION... SURFACE HIGH EXITING NEBRASKA AND LIGHT WINDS EXPECTED OVER THE AREA. SOUTH WINDS AND ASSOCIATED MOISTURE WILL WORK THEIR WAY INTO THE TRISTATE AREA THIS EVENING ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE HIGH. CONVECTION WILL BE THE MAJOR AVIATION FOCUS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WEST OF KLBF AFTER 0Z. VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT KLBF AND KVTN THE THE PRIMARY QUESTION BEING IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH KLBF. DUE TO UNCERTAINTY OF LOCATION AND COVERAGE OF STORMS KEPT THEM OUT OF THE KLBF TAF ATTM... HOWEVER EXTENSIVE MID LEVEL CLOUDS EXPECTED THROUGH MUCH OF THE OVERNIGHT. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM/EXTENDED...ROBERG AVIATION...HIRSCH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 346 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 2009 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-292045- 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- 346 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 2009 /246 PM MDT SUN JUN 28 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE AXIS OF HIGHER DEW POINTS EXTENDING FROM NEAR IMPERIAL DOWN THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THIS MOISTURE COM BINDED WITH SOME UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE NEAR THIS AREA WILL ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 23 THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. THIS EVENING AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE OVER UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA AND MAY HELP TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 2 IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. ANY STORMS WHICH DO DEVELOP WILL TRACK TO THE SOUTHEAST ENDING AROUND MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM LIGHTNING. HOWEVER GUSTY THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SURFACE DEW POINTS WILL INCREASE THIS WEEK AND REMAIN HIGH ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH THE WEEK...AND INTO THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BRING THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NEARLY EACH AFTERNOON OR EVENING. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE THIS WEEK WITH THE MOST ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY. .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 HIRSCH
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain of 1.5 inches in 45 minutes washed out county roads.
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