Thunderstorms developed along a stationary front from northwest Kansas into east central Nebraska. These thunderstorms became strong over southwest Nebraska, impacting portions of Frontier County.
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Thunderstorms developed along a stationary front from northwest Kansas into east central Nebraska. These thunderstorms became strong over southwest Nebraska, impacting portions of Frontier County.
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 Sep 10, 5:33 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 633 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 .SYNOPSIS... ISSUED AT 331 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 UPPER AIR ANALYSIS FROM THIS MORNING HAS AN UPPER LOW OVER NORTHWESTERN AZ WITH HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT NOTED OVER KENTUCKY. DEEP MONSOONAL MOISTURE CONTINUES TO STREAM NORTH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ROCKIES...INTO THE DAKOTAS AND UPPER MIDWEST. AT THE SURFACE...A STATIONARY FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM PLATTSMOUTH...TO LINCOLN...TO NORTH OF HILL CITY KANSAS. NORTH OF THIS FEATURE...MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES WERE NOTED OVER SOUTHWESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NEBRASKA...WHILE OVERCAST SKIES WERE NOTED OVER THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. TEMPERATURES AS OF 3 PM CDT RANGED FROM 73 AT VALENTINE...TO 85 AT OGALLALA. && .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY) ISSUED AT 331 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 FORECAST CONCERNS THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON DEAL WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES...AS WELL AS TEMPERATURES. THE SHOWERS ONGOING OVER NORTHWEST INTO NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WILL DIMINISH THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AS THE AREA OF MID LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS WEAKENS. LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING...BELIEVE THE FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH AND WEST. WITH THE UPPER LOW SITTING OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST TO CONTINUE PUMPING MONSOONAL MOISTURE AND WEAK SHORTWAVE ENERGY INTO THE REGION...THE NEXT 24 HOURS WILL SEE CONTINUED CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. BELIEVE THERE WILL BE DEVELOPMENT NORTH OF THE FRONT TONIGHT...WHICH WILL REMAIN JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA. AND WITH THE COMBINATION OF AIR FLOWING OVER THE FRONT...ALONG WITH LIFT FROM THE WEAK SHORTWAVES...KEPT THE HIGHER CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION OVER THE SOUTH AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA. ALSO...AS THE NORTHEASTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST LOOKS TO STAY DRY...DID TAKE CHANCES FOR RAIN OUT OF THOSE PLACES THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...ALTHOUGH FLOW IN THE LOW LEVELS WILL BE RATHER STAGNANT...EXPECTING QUITE A BIT OF CLOUD COVER SO THINK LOWS MAY BE A FEW DEGREES WARMER THAN LAST NIGHT. BUT WITH THE AIRMASS PRETTY SIMILAR...KEPT TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 40S TO LOW 60S. HIGHS ON WEDNESDAY SHOULD BE QUITE A BIT COOLER THAN THE AREA HAS SEEN IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS. TEMPERATURES ALOFT /AT 850MB/ WILL BE IN THE UPPER TEENS...BUT THE CLOUD COVER AND RAINFALL SHOULD INHIBIT TEMPERATURES FROM RISING TOO MUCH. HIGHS SHOULD RANGE FROM THE LOW AND MID 70S WHERE SUNSHINE IS LIMITED...TO THE LOW 80S OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...WHERE SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY SUNNY. .LONG TERM...(WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 331 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...THE MAIN FORECASTING CHALLENGES ARE PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND TEMPERATURES IN ASSOCIATION WITH A STALLED OUT FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS NRN KS...NERN COLORADO AND EASTERN WYOMING. ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT...COOLER H7 TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO BACK INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA...AS TROUGHING BEGINS TO AMPLIFY ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES AND UPPER MIDWEST. MID LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS AND ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL INCREASE OVERNIGHT MAINLY ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FORECAST AREA LEADING TO INCREASED CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. WILL CONTINUE THE HIGHEST POPS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CWA FOR THE PERIOD...BUT WILL NOT TOTALLY ELIMINATE POPS IN THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN CWA THOUGH...AS THE NAM SOLN IS FARTHER NORTH WITH ITS FRONTAL BAND FCST COMPARED TO THE GFS SOLN. ON THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD SOUTH INTO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...FORCING THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY SOUTH AND WEST...WHICH WILL LIMIT PRECIPITATION CHANCES TO THE FAR SWRN CWA. AS IS THE CASE WITH THE LOCATION OF MID LEVEL FORCING WEDS NIGHT...THE GFS IS STRONGEST WITH THE SURFACE HIGH...AND AS A RESULT...IS FURTHER SOUTH WITH THE FRONT COMPARED TO THE NAM. UTILIZING 100 PERCENT OF THE GFS SOLN...WOULD YIELD DRY POPS ACROSS ALL OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. WITH THE NAM HAVING WEAKER HIGH PRESSURE AND BEING FARTHER NORTH WITH THE FRONT...WILL STILL CONTINUE TO MENTION PRECIPITATION CHANCES IN THE SWRN CWA...ALBEIT...CHANCES ARE LOWER THAN IN YESTERDAYS FCST. FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY LIFTS NORTHEAST THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA. THE UPPER AIR PATTERN WILL BECOME MORE FAVORABLE AS WELL WITH A SHIFT IN FLOW TO THE SOUTHWEST THIS WEEKEND. PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY...WITH DRIER CONDITIONS SETTING IN LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY AS A DRIER...ZONAL PATTERN SETS IN. TEMPERATURES WILL REBOUND BACK INTO THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S EARLY NEXT WEEK. WITH 70S FORECAST FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z WEDNESDAY EVENING) ISSUED AT 632 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 WITH THE SURFACE FRONT FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TO EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...OUR HIGHEST CONFIDENCE IS THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WOULD BE SOUTH OF A BBW-LBF-OGA LINE. STILL...THERE COULD BE A ROGUE REACHING AS FAR NORTH AS LBF AND OGA BUT THE PROBABILITY IS TOO LOW FOR INCLUDING IT IN THE TERMINAL FORECAST FOR LBF. WITH EAST WIND ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA...NORTHERN KANSAS AND NORTHEAST COLORADO...THE OTHER ISSUE IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF CEILING AND VISIBILITY AT OR BELOW 1000FT AGL AND 3SM. MOST SHORT RANGE PROJECTIONS INDICATE LOW CEILING SPREADING INTO NEBRASKA TO ABOUT A SNY-OGA-IML LINE WITH THE LOWER VISIBILITY MOST LIKELY IN RAIN OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SYNOPSIS...CLB SHORT TERM...BROOKS LONG TERM...CLB AVIATION...SPRINGER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 400 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-112100- 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- 400 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 /300 PM MDT TUE SEP 10 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 AND EXTENDING INTO THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...WHILE OTHER SEVERE CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST THROUGH MUCH OF THE NEXT WEEK. AT THIS TIME...NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE ACTIVITY IS ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && GET YOUR WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE) BROOKS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 951 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 NEZ070-071-110330- FRONTIER NE-HAYES NE- 951 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN HAYES AND FRONTIER COUNTIES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT... AT 947 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RED WILLOW RESERVOIR STATE RECREATION AREA...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAYES CENTER...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BLUEGILL HAVEN CAMPGROUND AROUND 1005 PM CDT. QUICK AROUND 1020 PM CDT. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 83 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 27 AND 51. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SPRINGER
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:12 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorm winds tipped over some farm equipment.
Strong winds tipped over irrigation piping.
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