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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS North Platte, NE

August 5, 1995Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
30 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 12:00Z, 6.0 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 928 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
928 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 051802 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC041-051830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
100 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY
 
AT 1 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST
OF BROKEN BOW MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL IS
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE COMMUNITY OF ANSLEY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE T<ELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
MONSON 1802Z

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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.