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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS North Platte, NE

September 11, 1995Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 1995, 5:14 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 11, 1995, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 1995, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 1995-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 207 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 1995-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
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 112315 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC031-112345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
614 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY
 
AT 608 PM CDT (508 PM MDT) RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES NORTH OF MULLEN IN SOUTHERN CHERRY COUNTY AND WAS MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH. MULLEN IS 53 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE. LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY STAY
OVER OPEN COUNTRY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
JWS

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, 4:36 PM MDT, 38 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, 4:37 PM MDT, 37 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, 5:12 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
612 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995

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

605 PM     3 N STAPLETON             NE   DIME SIZED HAIL
09/11/95   LOGAN                          PUBLIC REPORT

WERT
Local storm report, Sep 11, 5:13 PM MDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
612 PM CDT MON SEP 11 1995

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

605 PM     3 N STAPLETON             NE   DIME SIZED HAIL
09/11/95   LOGAN                          PUBLIC REPORT

WERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 11, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan31 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.