Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS North Platte, NE

June 13, 1996Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT for Lincoln 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
Jun 13, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDTHail 0.75Dickens, 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, 3.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1401 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
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

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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, Jun 13, 5:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 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, 3 hours 13 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 56 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 35 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, 2 hours 13 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker62 min
Jun 13, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln61 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson60 min
Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln60 min
Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln30 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.