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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS North Platte, NE

August 4, 1995Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1995, 4:30 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1995, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1995, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1719 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 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
1719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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 042231 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC161-042300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT) FRI AUG 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT (500 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 424 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CHADRON OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSHVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT RUSHVILLE BY 450 PM MDT.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO2 NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, 6:45 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, 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.