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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS North Platte, NE

June 20, 1996Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1996, 6:13 AM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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 20, 1996, 6:13 AM CDT (11:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1996, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Holt County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 20, 6:20 AM CDT	Hail 0.88	Chambers, 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, 11.2 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: 595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -432 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 201113
SVRLBF
NEC089-201200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
613 AM CDT THU JUN 20 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN HOLT COUNTY
 
AT 611 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF O NEILL OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF
INMAN MOVING EAST AT 23 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE
VICINITY OF...   INMAN                        BY 626 AM CDT
  EWING                        BY 641 AM CDT
  PAGE                         BY 641 AM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

MUTCHLER

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 20, 5:42 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
541 AM CDT THU JUN 20 1996

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

05365 AM    CHAMBERS                  NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/20/96   HOLT

MUTCHLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 3:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	65 min
Jun 20, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Logan	62 min
Jun 20, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	61 min
Jun 20, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Loup	62 min
Jun 20, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	64 min
Jun 20, 4:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	63 min
Jun 20, 4:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	62 min
Jun 20, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Loup, Rock	60 min
Jun 20, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wheeler	65 min
Jun 20, 5:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Loup	66 min
Jun 20, 6:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	62 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.