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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS North Platte, NE

June 27, 1995Logan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT for Logan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 27, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Stapleton, NE	Small tornado touched down in a stack yard. Tornado was on the ground approximately five minutes, damaging several stacks. Baseball hail fell and knocked out windows and damaged a roof and siding.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 50 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2156 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KLBF 280000 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC113-280045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
700 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      WESTERN AND CENTRAL LOGAN

AT 656 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 35 MILES
NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY AND WILL BE APPROACHING
STAPLETON ABOUT 725 PM CDT.  LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!

 MONSON 2359Z

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
425 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 1995

...DELAYED STORM REPORTS FROM THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF JUNE 22 ,1995...

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

500 PM     GORDON                    NE   HALF DOLLAR SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   SHERIDAN                       BY CIVIL DEFENSE

530 PM     HYANNIS                   NE   DIME-QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   GRANT                          BY CIVIL DEFENSE

550 PM     6NW CODY                  NE   MARBLE AND DIME SIZED HAIL
06/22/95   CHERRY                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

618 PM     2E HYANNIS                NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   GRANT                          CIVIL DEFENSE

629 PM     LEWELLEN                  NE   2 INCH SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   GARDEN                         BY COUNTY DEPUTY

639 PM     1E 11/2N LEWELLEN         NE   11/2 TO 21/2 INCH HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   GARDEN                         BY COUNTY DEPUTY

640 PM     16S MULLEN                NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   HOOKER                         PUBLIC

700 PM     NEAR ARTHUR               NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   ARTHUR                         PUBLIC

700 PM     WHITMAN                   NE   WALNUT SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   GRANT                          PUBLIC

730 PM     3W KEYSTONE               NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   KEITH                          PUBLIC

815 PM     5E 2S GRANT               NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   PERKINS                        PUBLIC

830 PM     5S OGALLALA               NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   KEITH                          BY PUBLIC

950 PM     111/2N ELSIE              NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   PERKINS                        BY PUBLIC

FS

Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
425 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 1995

...DELAYED STORM REPORTS FROM THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF JUNE 22 ,1995...

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

500 PM     GORDON                    NE   HALF DOLLAR SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   SHERIDAN                       BY CIVIL DEFENSE

530 PM     HYANNIS                   NE   DIME-QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   GRANT                          BY CIVIL DEFENSE

550 PM     6NW CODY                  NE   MARBLE AND DIME SIZED HAIL
06/22/95   CHERRY                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

618 PM     2E HYANNIS                NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   GRANT                          CIVIL DEFENSE

629 PM     LEWELLEN                  NE   2 INCH SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   GARDEN                         BY COUNTY DEPUTY

639 PM     1E 11/2N LEWELLEN         NE   11/2 TO 21/2 INCH HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   GARDEN                         BY COUNTY DEPUTY

640 PM     16S MULLEN                NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   HOOKER                         PUBLIC

700 PM     NEAR ARTHUR               NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   ARTHUR                         PUBLIC

700 PM     WHITMAN                   NE   WALNUT SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   GRANT                          PUBLIC

730 PM     3W KEYSTONE               NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   KEITH                          PUBLIC

815 PM     5E 2S GRANT               NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
06/22/95   PERKINS                        PUBLIC

830 PM     5S OGALLALA               NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   KEITH                          BY PUBLIC

950 PM     111/2N ELSIE              NE   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
06/22/95   PERKINS                        BY PUBLIC

FS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	27 min
Jun 27, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	36 min
Jun 27, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	50 min
Jun 27, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	41 min
Jun 27, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

Sources

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