Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS North Platte, NE

July 5, 1996Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 7:04 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 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 5, 1996, 7:04 PM MDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1996, 8:10 PM MDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 5, 7:14 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Valentine, NE
Jul 5, 7:25 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Valentine, 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1433 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 5, 5:36 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
635 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1996

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

0510J PM    11N OF BRANDON            NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
07/05/96   PERKINS

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, Jul 5, 5:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR TIME OF EVENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
635 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1996

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

0610 PM    11N OF BRANDON            NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
07/05/96   PERKINS

MUTCHLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	63 min
Jul 5, 8:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha	49 min
Jul 5, 9:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	61 min
Jul 5, 10:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	63 min
Jul 6, 7:04 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	46 min
Jul 6, 11:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Wheeler	61 min
Jul 6, 12:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	65 min
Jul 6, 12:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wheeler	50 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.