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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS North Platte, NE

July 20, 1987Grant County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1987, 7:30 PM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1987, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1987, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, NE

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1987-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3222 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1987-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 6:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry56 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.