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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1996, 4:41 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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 18, 1996, 4:41 PM MDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1996, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Merriman, NE | |
| Jun 18, 5:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Eli, 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, 10.7 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2342 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 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 182242 SVRLBF NEC031-182330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 541 PM CDT (441 PM MDT) TUE JUN 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY AT 538 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 54 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE OR 4 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MERRIMAN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 14 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... ELI BY 610 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. 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
Local storm report, Jun 18, 4:36 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
535 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
051x5 PM ELLSWORTH 15 NNE NE WIND DAMAGE
06/18/96 SHERIDAN 3-4 INCH DIAMETER TREE
BRANCHES DOWN
TLWThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 3:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 46 min |
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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.