Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS North Platte, NE

May 14, 1996Grant County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 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
May 14, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1996, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 14, 6:35 PM MDTHail 0.88Hyannis, 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1713 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
1713 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 14, 5:43 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA
645 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
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0632 PM    9S OF ARTHUR              NE   .75 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   ARTHUR

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur40 min
May 14, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker67 min
May 14, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan63 min
May 14, 7:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFThomas69 min
May 14, 8:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry68 min
May 14, 10:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry, Hooker27 min
May 15, 5:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln50 min
May 15, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan61 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.