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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS North Platte, NE

August 3, 1995Deuel County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 6:23 PM MDT for Deuel County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1995, 6:23 PM MDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1995, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Deuel County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 1995-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1827 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 1995-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
1827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 040026 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC049-040100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
723 PM CDT (623 PM MDT) THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT (700 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...DEUEL COUNTY
 
AT 615 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
IN DEUEL COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTH CENTRAL DEUEL
COUNTY AS WELL AS IN WESTERN DEUEL COUNTY. CHAPPELL AND BIG SPRINGS ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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 LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
JWS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden30 min
Aug 3, 6:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith28 min
Aug 3, 7:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Garden, Keith54 min
Aug 3, 8:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant39 min
Aug 4, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan30 min
Aug 4, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan43 min

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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.