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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS North Platte, NE

July 24, 1995Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1995, 7:54 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 21 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 1995, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
21 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, 0.9 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 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1582 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 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 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
1582 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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 
TTAA00 KLBF 250055 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC041-250115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
754 PM CDT MON JUL 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY
 
AT 747 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF
CALLAWAY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. CALLAWAY IS 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF
NORTH PLATTE. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
JWS

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 24, 6:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
648 PM CDT MON JUL 24 1995

...DELAYED SEVERE WEATHER REPORT FROM THE EVENING OF JULY 22ND...

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

950 PM     15 SE ARTHUR              NE   PUBLIC REPORT OF NUMEROUS
07/22/95   ARTHUR                         LARGE BRANCHES DOWN AND
                                          SOME TREES DOWN

WERT
Local storm report, Jul 24, 6:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
648 PM CDT MON JUL 24 1995

...DELAYED SEVERE WEATHER REPORT FROM THE EVENING OF JULY 22ND...

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

950 PM     15 SE ARTHUR              NE   PUBLIC REPORT OF NUMEROUS
07/22/95   ARTHUR                         LARGE BRANCHES DOWN AND
                                          SOME TREEdS DOWN

WERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln28 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.