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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 1, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1996, 8:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sutherland, 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, 0.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 519 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 020046 SVRLBF NEC111-020115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 745 PM CDT MON JUL 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 745 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE BETWEEN SUTHERLAND AND HERSHEY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NICKEL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 740 PM CDT AT MILEMARKER 152 ON INTERSTATE 80. THE STORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH OPEN COUNTRY IN SOUTHWEST LINCOLN COUNTY. IF YOU AR(E OUTSIDE...GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. YOU CAN EXPECT DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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
Local storm report, Jul 1, 7:39 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
739 PM CDT MON JUL 1 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0624 PM 18 W NORTH PLATTE NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/01/96 LINCOLN
DAUGHERTYThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 49 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.