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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS North Platte, NE

July 3, 1995Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 9:27 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min.

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The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
48 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, 2.5 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 
WUUS1 KLBF 040228 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC041-040315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
927 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY
 
AT 925 PM CDT RADAR INDCIATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF
BROKEN BOW OR ABOUT 55 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORM
WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS NORTHEAST CUSTER COUNTY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
MONSON 0227Z


CH INFORMATION.. THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 689. WATCH NUMBER 689 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 915
PM CDT.
$$

C...TORNADOES AND A FEW SVR TSTMS WITH HAIL SFC AND ALF TO 3 IN.
EXTRM TURBC AND SFC WND GUSTS TO 80 KNOTS. A FEW CBS WITH MAX TOPS
TO 500. MEAN WIND VECTOR 24035.

D... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RAPIDLY DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN
KS ALONG SURFACE TROF/CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY. AIR MASS AHEAD OF
BOUNDARY VERY UNSTABLE WITH 3000 TO 4000 J/KG CAPES.


...ROGASH

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, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster50 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.