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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS North Platte, NE

June 13, 1996Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 2:01 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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 13, 1996, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 3:05 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 2:05 PM MDTHail 0.88Mullen, NE
Jun 13, 3:15 PM MDTHail 0.75Mullen, 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, 8.0 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 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1097 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 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
1097 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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 132002
SVRLBF
NEC031-132105-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
301 PM CDT (201 PM MDT) THU JUN 13 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 405 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY
 
AT 259 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 19 MILES NORTH OF MULLEN MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 11
MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

DAUGHERTY

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

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:29 AM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-141200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1128 AM CDT (1028 AM MDT) MON JUNE 13 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES...

ARTHUR     BLAINE     BOYD       BROWN      CHASE      CHERRY
CUSTER     DEUEL      FRONTIER   GARDEN     GARFIELD   GRANT
HAYES      HOLT       HOOKER     KEITH      KEYA PAHA  LINCOLN
LOGAN      LOUP       MCPHERSON  PERKINS    ROCK       SHERIDAN
THOMAS     WHEELER

...STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
SHOULD BE ALERT AND READY FOR ACTIVATION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON INTO
THIS EVENING...

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
THIS EVENING OVER WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

A VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE COMBINED WITH INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
WILL INCREASE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON INTO
THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED
ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.

MICHELS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry60 min
Jun 13, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry47 min
Jun 13, 4:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker, Thomas62 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker45 min
Jun 13, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson59 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.