Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 9:56 PM CDT for Brown County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1996, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 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
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, 6:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 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
MUTCHLERLocal storm report, Jul 5, 6:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 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
MUTCHLERLocal storm report, Jul 5, 9:43 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
942 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930V PM 7ESE OF VALENTINE NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/96 CHERRY
0930 PM 7ESE OF VALENTINE NE WIND DAMAGE
07/05/96 CHERRY 4-INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN
POWERS/MUTCHLERThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 8:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.