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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS North Platte, NE

June 13, 1996Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 4:03 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 13, 1996, 4:03 PM MDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1996, 4:50 PM MDT
In force: 47 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, 4:30 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, 10.1 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 132205
SVRLBF
NEC031-132250-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
503 PM CDT (403 PM MDT) THU JUN 13 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 550 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY
 
AT 501 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF MULLEN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT
10 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

WERT

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, 5 hours 34 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

Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
351 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996

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

0305 PM    22 N OF MULLEN            NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/13/96   CHERRY

KMD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 2:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	64 min
Jun 13, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	60 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

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.