


Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS North Platte, NE
Issued by NWS North Platte, NE
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822 FXUS63 KLBF 130528 AFDLBF Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service North Platte NE 1228 AM CDT Sun Jul 13 2025 .KEY MESSAGES... - Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms are possible across north central Nebraska ahead of a weak frontal boundary Sunday afternoon. - A cold front approaches the area Tuesday, bringing a return of thunderstorms and much below average temperatures (highs in 70s to low 80s) into midweek. - Active weather continues into late week and next weekend, with continued threats for showers and thunderstorms. && .SHORT TERM /THROUGH MONDAY/... Issued at 330 PM CDT Sat Jul 12 2025 Currently, temperatures have climbed into the 70s across the area, with surface high pressure centered over western Nebraska. The surface high is also leading to light and variable winds, under mostly sunny skies. For tonight and tomorrow, expect winds to strengthen from the south, as surface high pressure begins to exit off to the east. This increasing warm advection will lead to a quick warmup for tomorrow, with highs returning to the upper 80s and lower 90s. Dewpoints will also climb back into the lower and middle 60s, allowing for a narrow corridor of increasing instability ahead of a weak cold front sliding into the Sandhills during the afternoon. Recent high-res guidance has begun to suggest isolated to widely scattered thunderstorm development ahead of this boundary, across portions of central and north central Nebraska. This seems plausible, given the increasing instability and convergence along/ahead of the front. With this in mind, have introduced slight chance (15-20%) POPs for portions of central and north central Nebraska tomorrow afternoon. Meager deep layer shear should hold back any storms that do form, but this will need to be monitored. Any storms that form quickly wane tomorrow evening, with dry conditions expected tomorrow night. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... Issued at 330 PM CDT Sat Jul 12 2025 A brief reprieve from precipitation is expected through the afternoon Monday, before a shortwave trough begins to eject into the Plains Monday evening. This will lead to increasing convection across the high terrain of Wyoming, which will move east into the Panhandle late evening. At least some threat exists for this convection to survive into the eastern Panhandle/western Sandhills, though any storms should be quickly weakening as they approach. By Tuesday afternoon, an upper level trough will begin to eject southeast out of the Pacific Northwest, slowly ejecting into the Northern Plains by Thursday. This approaching trough will bring a return of active weather, with an associated surface cold front entering the area Tuesday evening. Ahead of this front, ample instability and at least marginally supportive deep layer shear suggests some threat for strong to severe thunderstorms. Frontal position will drive the location of any severe threat Tuesday, and will need to be monitored closely. The front then clears the area Tuesday night, with the area in a cooler, but upslope, postfrontal airmass. This suggests a threat for showers and thunderstorms will persist Wednesday into Thursday, before the parent upper trough finally begins to exit off to the east Thursday afternoon. Any break in precipitation looks to be short lived, as guidance continues to suggest an active pattern persisting into late week and next weekend. && .AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z MONDAY/... Issued at 1226 AM CDT Sun Jul 13 2025 VFR conditions will prevail through Sunday evening. Skies remain clear or mostly clear with ceilings well above 10 kft. Winds will generally remain under 10 knots, however, they are expected to change from the south to the northwest by tomorrow afternoon before changing back to east northeast during the evening. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && $$ SHORT TERM...Brown LONG TERM...Brown AVIATION...Kulik