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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS North Platte, NE

July 24, 1995Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1995, 8:32 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1995, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 15 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 250132 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC111-250200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
832 PM CDT MON JUL 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 830 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH OF
NORTH PLATTE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
ARE LIKELY 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 LIGHTNINGP ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
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 44 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 43 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	21 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995 Every 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.