Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1996, 6:03 PM CDT for Logan County, McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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 3, 1996, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1996, 6:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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 3, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ringgold, NE | |
| Jul 3, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Stapleton, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1431 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 442 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 032304 SVRLBF NEC113-117-032350- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 603 PM CDT WED JUL 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 650 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN COUNTY ...SOUTHEASTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY AT 602 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 22 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE OR 3 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF RINGGOLD MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 24 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... RINGGOLD BY 610 PM CDT STAPLETON BY 642 PM CDT 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 THNE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. WERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 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.