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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS North Platte, NE

July 22, 1995Arthur County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 8:33 PM MDT for Arthur County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1995, 8:33 PM MDT (02:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1995, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Arthur County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 230235 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC005-230300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
933 PM CDT (833 PM MDT) SAT JUL 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHERN ARTHUR COUNTY
 
AT 930 PM CDT (830 PM MDT) RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ARTHUR OR 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORM WAS
MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
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.
 
POWER 0235

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant28 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.