Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS North Platte, NE

May 14, 1996Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 6:57 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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: May 14, 1996, 6:57 PM MDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1996, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 14, 7:11 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	White Clay, NE
May 14, 7:25 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	White Clay, 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 150059
SVRLBF
NEC161-150200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
757 PM CDT (657 PM MDT) TUE MAY 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT (800 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 800 PM CDT (700 PM MDT) DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITE CLAY...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHADRON.
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL APPROACH WHITE CLAY
AROUND 810 PM CDT (710 PM MDT) AND SHOULD REACH THE GORDON AREA BY 845
PM CDT (745 PM MDT).
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STONRM HAS PASSED.
 
 
JWS

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, May 14, 5:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA
645 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
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0632 PM    9S OF ARTHUR              NE   .75 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   ARTHUR

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, May 14, 6:38 PM MDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
738 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996

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

0735 PM    8 S HYANNIS               NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   GRANT

END

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 6:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	60 min
May 14, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	40 min
May 14, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	67 min
May 14, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	69 min
May 14, 8:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	68 min
May 14, 10:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker	27 min
May 15, 5:40 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	50 min
May 15, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	61 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.