Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS North Platte, NE
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:05 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Mullen, NE | |
| Jun 13, 3:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Mullen, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 59 min |
Nearby
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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.