A strong spring storm system continued to produced high winds across portions of the southeast Panhandle and southwest Nebraska on April 29, 2014. The winds quickly increased during the morning hours and persisted through the afternoon as northwest winds of 35 to 45 mph with gusts to around 60 mph were observed.
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The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
A strong spring storm system continued to produced high winds across portions of the southeast Panhandle and southwest Nebraska on April 29, 2014. The winds quickly increased during the morning hours and persisted through the afternoon as northwest winds of 35 to 45 mph with gusts to around 60 mph were observed.
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 Apr 29, 5:25 AM MST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 725 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 .SYNOPSIS... ISSUED AT 309 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 AT 07Z...THE H7 CLOSED LOW WAS LOCATED IN NWRN MISSOURI. A TIGHT SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT IN PLACE ACROSS NEBRASKA FROM NEAR 1015 MB NEAR CHADRON TO NEAR 995 MB NEAR FALLS CITY. SOME AREAS OF LIGHT SNOW CONTINUE FROM THE NRN PNHDLE AND WESTERN SANDHILLS WHILE LIGHT RAIN OR SNOW CONTINUED ACROSS SWRN NEBR. && .SHORT TERM...(TODAY AND TONIGHT) ISSUED AT 309 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 SHORT TERM CONCERNS ARE WINDS AND PRECIPITATION CHANCES. TWO DISTINCT LOBES WILL ROTATE AROUND CLOSED LOW TODAY. THE FIRST ONE WILL ROTATE SOUTH ACROSS WRN NEBR TODAY...WHILE A SECOND ROTATES INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING. DRIER AIR DOES NOT WORK INTO THE AREA UNTIL AFTER 00Z...SO LIKELY POPS PORTIONS OF NCTRL THIS MORNING TO CHANCE POPS FURTHER SOUTH. BY LATE MORNING AND AFTN...ONLY A SLIGHT CHC SOUTHWEST AND MAINLY CHANCE POPS ELSEWHERE. GIVEN THAT AREAS OF LIGHT SNOW CONTINUES IN WINTER WX ADVISORY AREA OF NCTRL...HAVE CONTINUED THAT PRODUCT UNTIL 15Z...WHEN PRECIP TYPE FAVORS RAIN AND COVERAGE DIMINISHES. NEW SNOWFALL AMOUNTS TO BE AN INCH OR LESS. MADE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO HIGHS TODAY WITH LOWER 40S NWRN HALF TO MID 40S SOUTHEAST. NORTHWEST WINDS TODAY ARE AGAIN GOING TO TO BE STRONG. DEEP UNIDIRECTIONAL WINDS AND TIGHT SURFACE AND H7 GRADIENT SUPPORT AT LEAST WIND ADVISORY ALL AREAS TODAY. CHANGES TO THIS FORECAST INCLUDE UPGRADING TO A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR GARDEN...DEUEL...KEITH...PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTY FROM 15Z UNTIL 02Z AND EXTENDING WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 02Z FOR ADJACENT ARTHUR...MCPHERSON...LINCOLN..HAYES AND FRONTIER COUNTY. BY THIS EVENING...LINGERING LIGHT RAIN WILL END FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. VERY DRY AIR MOVES IN ABOVE H7...ALTHOUGH SATURATION BELOW SUGGESTS CONTINUED CLOUDY/MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. NW WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH NO DECOUPLING EXPECTED. THIS WILL HELP KEEP LOWS AT 32 OR SLIGHTLY HIGHER OVERNIGHT...WITH LOWS NEAR 30 PARTS OF THE ERN PNHDLE AND WESTERN SANDHILLS. .LONG TERM...(WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 309 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 FORECAST CONCERNS IN THE EXTENDED REMAIN CENTERED ON GUSTY NORTHWEST WIND...WITH A LESSER FOCUS ON PRECIPITATION CHANCES. STARTING WITH 12Z WEDNESDAY...AFTER A BRIEF RETROGRESSION TO THE WEST...THE STUBBORN UPPER LOW WILL FINALLY KICK NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHEASTERN CANADA...ABSORBED BY THE NORTHERN STREAM. WHILE THIS OCCURS...ONE LAST LOBE OF ENERGY WILL ROTATE SOUTH ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE LOW...BRINGING PRECIPITATION BACK TO THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS...SOME OF WHICH MAY DROP SOUTHWEST INTO THE CWA. CURRENT CONSENSUS OF THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS FAVOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY AS WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT CENTERED ON THE 295K SURFACE AND LOW CONDENSATION PRESSURE DEFICITS TARGET NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA. ONLY LIGHT RAIN ACCUMULATIONS WOULD BE EXPECTED AS DEEP TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE IS LACKING. THERE REMAINS SIGNIFICANT DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE DEPICTION OF H85 TEMPERATURES. THE GFS CONTINUES TO DISPLAY A COLD BIAS OF UP TO 4C COMPARED TO THE NAM. ECMWF IS ON THE COOLER SIDE AS WELL...BUT NOT AS COLD AS THE GFS SOLUTION. THERE MAY BE SOME SNOW MIXING IN EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING...BUT SHOULD TURN TO ALL RAIN BY MID-MORNING. WILL GO DRY WITH THE FORECAST 00Z THURSDAY AS THE MODELS INDICATE A NICE PUSH OF DRY AIR FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. NORTHWEST FLOW WILL USHER THE NEXT UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND UPPER JET SUPPORT ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS LATE WEEK. THE MODELS ARE SUGGESTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIGHT QPF ACROSS OUR NORTHERN ZONES FRIDAY...AND POSSIBLY AGAIN SATURDAY AND EARLY SUNDAY. THERE/S SOME DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE MODELS AT THIS POINT...SO WON/T GET TOO CARRIED WITH POPS JUST YET...LIMITING THOSE PERIODS TO LOW END CHANGE/SLIGHT CHANCE POPS AT BEST. IN TERMS OF TEMPERATURES...LATEST GUIDANCE INDICATES A GRADUAL WARMING TREND INTO SATURDAY...BUT SUGGESTS A BRIEF COOL DOWN LATE IN THE DAY AND FOR SUNDAY WITH THE PASSAGE OF A WEAK CANADIAN FRONT. TEMPERATURES WILL ONLY COOL BACK TO NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW SEASONAL NORMS ON SUNDAY WITH THIS FRONT. EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUILDING HEIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE EASTWARD ADVANCE OF AN UPPER RIDGE AND SOUTHERLY RETURN FLOW SHOULD HELP PUSH TEMPERATURES BACK INTO MID TO UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S FOR MOST PLACES. FOR THE WIND FORECAST...YET ANOTHER GUSTY DAY IS ANTICIPATED WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST WHERE SOME CLEARING OF THE OVC SKIES IS POSSIBLE. STEEP LAPSE RATES COMBINED WITH 35-40KTS OF MOMENTUM AT H85 MAY FACILITATE THE NEED OF ANOTHER ISSUANCE OF A WIND ADVISORY. AS HAS BEEN THE CASE THE PAST COUPLE DAYS...WILL KEEP IT SIMPLE AND NOT ISSUE ADDITIONAL WIND HEADLINES WHILE CURRENT WIND HEADLINES ARE ONGOING. PLUS THE ADVISORY MAY BE MARGINAL. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z WEDNESDAY MORNING) ISSUED AT 724 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 MVFR CEILINGS ARE FORECAST AT KLBF AND KVTN THROUGH AT LEAST 18Z. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25G35KT CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY AT KVTN. STRONGER WINDS 31G43KT AT KLBF. WINDS TO DECOUPLE SOMEWHAT AFTER 00Z TO 34017G25KT FOR OVERNIGHT. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH WIND WARNING FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR NEZ022-056>058-069. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM MDT THIS MORNING FOR NEZ022-056>058-069. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR NEZ035- 036-059-070-071. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING FOR NEZ004>006-008-094. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT /6 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR NEZ004>010-023>029-037-038-094. && SYNOPSIS...ROBERG SHORT TERM...ROBERG LONG TERM...JACOBS AVIATION...ROBERG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 455 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-301000- 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- 455 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 /355 AM MDT TUE APR 29 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. VERY STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL OCCUR OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TODAY. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ELLSWORTH THROUGH WAUNETA. TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF THIS LINE NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. THE COMBINATION OF SNOW AND WINDS WILL CREATE SOME LOCAL AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW...MAINLY ACROSS SHERIDAN AND CHERRY COUNTY. SEE ONGOING WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES AND WIND HEADLINES FOR MORE INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AS THE LARGE STORM SYSTEM SLOWLY EXITS THE REGION. .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) KAR
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
800 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014
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0759 AM SNOW 29 S VALENTINE 42.45N 100.55W
04/29/2014 M2.5 INCH CHERRY NE PUBLIC
2.5 INCH SNOW AND 0.45 INCH LIQUID SINCE YESTERDAY, 1.5
INCH LIQUID EVENT TOTAL
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SNIVELYThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Nearby Ogallala AWOS recorded sustained winds of 41 mph with wind gusts to 59 mph at 1255 pm MDT. Winds of 35 to 45 mph with gusts to around 55 mph were common during the morning through the afternoon hours across Deuel County.
Ogallala AWOS recorded sustained winds of 41 mph with wind gusts to 59 mph at 1255 pm MDT. Winds of 35 to 45 mph with gusts to around 55 mph were common during the morning through the afternoon hours across Keith County.
The Crescent Lake RAWS site recorded sustained winds of 40 mph with wind gusts to 61 mph at 1258 pm MDT. Winds of 35 to 45 mph with frequent gust to around 55 mph occurred across Garden County from mid morning through the afternoon hours.
Nearby Imperial ASOS recorded sustained winds of 40 mph with wind gusts up to 58 mph. Winds of 35 to 45 mph with gusts to around 55 mph were common during the late morning through the afternoon hours across Perkins County.
Imperial ASOS recorded sustained winds of 40 mph with wind gusts up to 58 mph. Winds of 35 to 45 mph with gusts to around 55 mph were common during the late morning through the afternoon hours across Chase County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, April 2014
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 505032, 505033, 505030, 505031, 505034.