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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS North Platte, NE

August 18, 1995Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 5:37 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 1995, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Holt County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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 1995-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 470 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 1995-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 266 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
470 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-397 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 5:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt53 min
Aug 18, 9:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha49 min
Aug 18, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt63 min

Nearby

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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.