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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS North Platte, NE

June 19, 1996Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 2:12 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. 4 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 19, 1996, 2:12 PM CDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1996, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Holt County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 19, 2:28 PM CDT	Tornado F2	O Neill, NE
Jun 19, 2:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	O Neill, NE
Jun 19, 3:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	O Neill, NE
Jun 19, 3:10 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Page, 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 2375 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1329 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 191913
SVRLBF
NEC089-192015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
212 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHERN HOLT COUNTY
 
AT 210 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES WEST OF O NEILL OR 9 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF
ATKINSON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 21 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE
VICINITY OF...   AMELIA AND CHAMBERS              BY 246 PM CDT



 A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES.



 
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 lLOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

MICHELS

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 19, 11:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-201200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1114 AM CDT (1014 AM MDT) WED JUN 19 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 AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
SHOULD BE ALERT AND READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
THIS EVENING OVER WESTERN AND NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA.
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A FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING.  ABUNDANT MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE FRONT COMBINED WITH PLENTY
OF SUNSHINE *WILL CAUSE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF
THE FRONT AND MOVE THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD
BECOME SEVERE WITH THE GREATEST THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE.

FS

Local storm report, Jun 19, 12:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1243 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1996

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

0500 PM    8 S GORDON                NE   TORNADO
06/18/96   SHERIDAN                       LANDSPOUT-TYPE VORTEX
                                          INTERMITTENTLY ON THE
                                          GROUND FOR SEVERAL
                                          MINUTES OVER OPEN
                                          RANGELAND WITH NO REPORTS
                                          OF DAMAGE

0520 PM    11 SSW GORDON             NE   TORNADO
06/18/96   SHERIDAN                       SECOND LANDSPOUT-TYPE
                                          VORTEX DEVELOPED SLIGHTLY
                                          WEST AND SOUTH OF FIRST
                                          TORNADO AND ON THE GROUND
                                          FOR APPROXIMATLEY  3
                                          MINUTES OVER OPEN
                                          RANGELAND WITH NO REPORTS
                                          OF DAMAGE

0830 PM    24 S ASHBY                NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/18/96   GRANT                          FEW WIDELY SEPARATED
                                          HAILSTONES APPROXIMATELY
                                          100 YARDS APART FROM
                                          LOW-PRECIPITATION
                                          SUPERCELL

0900 PM    22 SSW MULLEN             NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/18/96   HOOKER

WERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	47 min
Jun 19, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	64 min
Jun 19, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	47 min
Jun 19, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd	50 min
Jun 19, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	34 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.