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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS North Platte, NE

July 21, 1995Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 8:11 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 19 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 1995, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
19 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, 1.2 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 1995-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 791 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 1995-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
791 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 220114 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC041-220130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
811 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY
 
AT 805 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST OF
ARNOLD MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
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.
 
 
STASSER 0113

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln48 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.