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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS North Platte, NE

July 5, 1996Brown County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 11:47 PM CDT for Brown County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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: Jul 5, 1996, 11:47 PM CDT (04:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1996, 12:50 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Brown County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 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 6, 12:00 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Ainsworth, 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 060448
SVRLBF
NEC017-060550-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1147 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1250 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...WEST CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY
 
AT 1146 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES WEST OF AINSWORTH OR 5 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF
JOHNSTOWN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 23 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE
VICINITY OF...   JOHNSTOWN                    BY 1158 PM CDT
AND SOUTHWEST OF AINSWORTH                    BY 1225 AM CDT

THE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY THEN THROUGH 1245 AM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

MICHELS

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, 5 hours 11 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, 6:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 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

Local storm report, Jul 5, 9:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 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/MUTCHLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	66 min
Jul 5, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	63 min
Jul 5, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha	49 min
Jul 5, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	61 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.