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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS North Platte, NE

June 11, 1996Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 4:28 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 11, 1996, 4:28 PM MDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1996, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 4:40 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Mullen, NE
Jun 11, 5:17 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Wood Lake, 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, 10.5 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-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: 248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 112230
SVRLBF
NEC031-112330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
528 PM CDT (428 PM MDT) TUE JUN 11 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORT

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, Jun 11, 3:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
415 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996

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

0340 PM    10 E SPRINGVIEW           NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/11/96   KEYA PAHA

0350 PM    3 E SPRINGVIEW            NE   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/11/96   KEYA PAHA

0410 PM    BURTON                    NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/11/96   KEYA PAHA

WERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 10:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	33 min
Jun 11, 2:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	59 min
Jun 11, 2:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha	64 min
Jun 11, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	61 min
Jun 11, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant	65 min
Jun 11, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every 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.