Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS North Platte, NE

May 14, 1996Thomas County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 8:36 PM CDT for Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report 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: May 14, 1996, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Thomas County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 14, 8:45 PM CDT	Hail 1	Seneca, 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, 1.6 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.

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: 1713 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 150139
SVRLBF
NEC171-150245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
836 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHERN THOMAS COUNTY
 
AT 838 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 3
MILES WEST OF SENECA. SENECA IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. MOVEMENT IS
EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOTR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 JWS

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, May 14, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA
645 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
<
0632 PM    9S OF ARTHUR              NE   .75 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   ARTHUR

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, May 14, 7:38 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
738 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996

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

0735 PM    8 S HYANNIS               NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   GRANT

END

Local storm report, May 14, 8:17 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
817 PM CDT WED MAY 15 1996

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

0803 PM    RUSHVILLE                 NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/15/96   SHERIDAN

MUTCHLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	60 min
May 14, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	40 min
May 14, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	67 min
May 14, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	63 min
May 14, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	68 min
May 14, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker	27 min
May 15, 6:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	50 min
May 15, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.