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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS North Platte, NE

June 13, 1996Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 9:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	North Platte, NE
Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Dickens, 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 1401 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 140230
SVRLBF
NEC111-140300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
930 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 930 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 11 MILES SOUTH
SOUTHEAST OF HERSHEY MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 11 MPH. THIS STORM IS
EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...HDEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

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 13, 3:52 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 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

Local storm report, Jun 13, 5:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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

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

0530 PM    9 NE MULLEN               NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/96   CHERRY

KMD

Local storm report, Jun 13, 6:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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

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

0640 PM    2 W MULLEN                NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/13/96   HOOKER

DAUGHERTY

Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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

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

061.5 PM    16 N TRYON                NE   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/13/96   HOOKER

DAUGHERTY

Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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

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

071n0 PM    6 N TRYON                 NE   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/96   MCPHERSON

DAUGHERTY

Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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

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

0730 PM    6 SW MULLEN               NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/96   HOOKER

DAUGHERTY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	62 min
Jun 13, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	60 min
Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	60 min
Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	60 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.