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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1996, 6:21 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 3 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, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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, 6:57 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | North Platte, NE | |
| Jul 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | (Lbf)Bird Fld North, NE | |
| Jul 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Maxwell, 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, 11.4 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
- 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 032322 SVRLBF NEC111-040025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 621 PM CDT WED JUL 3 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 SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 619 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 19 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 21 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. 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 THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, McPherson | 47 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.