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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS North Platte, NE

September 11, 1995Logan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 1995, 5:59 PM CDT for Logan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 11, 1995, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 50 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 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 112300 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC113-112330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
559 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 555 PM CDT INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF STAPLETON...OR ABOUT 22
MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES EAST AT 15 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO 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.
 
WERT

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 11, 5:36 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
536 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

520 PM     10 S ARTHUR               NE   GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
09/11/95   ARTHUR                         PUBLIC REPORT

WERT

Local storm report, Sep 11, 5:37 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
536 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

520 PM     10 S ARTHUR               NE   GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
09/11/95   ARTHUR                         PUBLIC REPORT

WERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	31 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.