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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS North Platte, NE

July 14, 1995Chase County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 6:45 PM MDT for Chase County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1995, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1995, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Chase County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1396 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 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 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
1396 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.4

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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 14, 6:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase42 min
Jul 14, 7:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase25 min
Jul 14, 7:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes22 min
Jul 14, 9:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase40 min
Jul 14, 9:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup39 min
Jul 14, 10:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.