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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS North Platte, NE

July 3, 1995Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 9:10 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Custer County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 1995-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 358 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 1995-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 040210
SVRLBF
NEC041-040300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
910 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY
 
AT 905 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTH OF
BROKEN BOW OR ABOUT 50 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN
ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS SOUTHEAST CUSTER COUNTY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
MONSON 0210Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier19 min
Jul 3, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster48 min
Jul 3, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.