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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 6:36 PM CDT for Thomas 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
- Jul 2, 1996, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Thedford, NE | |
| Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Thedford, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 621 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 022336 RRA SVRLBF NEC171-030025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 636 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...CENTRAL THOMAS COUNTY AT 634 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 25 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MULLEN OR 1 MILE SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF THEDFORD MOVING NORTHWEST AT 2 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 632 PM CDT WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...TAKE SHELTER 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. & MICHELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.