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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Hastings, NE

July 28, 1996Furnas County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 2:51 AM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1996, 2:51 AM CDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1996, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Furnas County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 1996-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 663 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 1996-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
663 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Harlan27 min
Jul 28, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper38 min
Jul 28, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell44 min
Jul 28, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips35 min
Jul 28, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell36 min
Jul 28, 2:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips42 min
Jul 28, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.