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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS North Platte, NE

August 3, 1995Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 6:45 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1995, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1995, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Garden County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 
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SVRLBF
NEC069-040115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
745 PM CDT (645 PM MDT) THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT (715 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN GARDEN COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEWELLEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 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 LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
JWS
 


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFDeuel37 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.