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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS North Platte, NE

July 22, 1995Grant County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 7:47 PM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1995, 7:47 PM MDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1995, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 803 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 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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 230149 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC075-230215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
847 PM CDT (747 PM MDT) SAT JUL 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT (815 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY
 
AT 845 PM CDT (745 PM MDT) RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT
10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HYANNIS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS OPEN
RANGELAND OF THE NEBRASKA SANDHILLS.
 
 
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.
 
POWER 0150Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 8:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur27 min
Jul 22, 9:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln34 min
Jul 22, 10:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln29 min
Jul 23, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith45 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.