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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS North Platte, NE

August 5, 1995Arthur County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 6:22 PM MDT for Arthur County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 6:22 PM MDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Arthur 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 104 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 1995-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1734 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 1995-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
1734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 060024 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC005-060100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
722 PM CDT (622 PM MDT) SAT AUG 5 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 WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHERN ARTHUR COUNTY
 
AT 620 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH OF
OGALLALA OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF ARTHUR MOVING TO THE EAST 20 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES RUNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
POWER 0024Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 7:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith26 min
Aug 5, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln23 min
Aug 5, 8:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995Every 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.