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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Hastings, NE

July 6, 1996Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1996, 4:34 PM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1996, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 6, 4:51 PM CDTHail 1Newark, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1996-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 421 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 1996-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 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
421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 6, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Valley42 min
Jul 6, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo52 min
Jul 6, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.