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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS North Platte, NE

July 6, 1996Garfield County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1996, 8:04 AM CDT for Garfield County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 6, 1996, 8:04 AM CDT (13:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1996, 8:50 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Garfield County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 061305
SVRLBF
NEC071-061350-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
804 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHWESTERN GARFIELD COUNTY
 
AT 803 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF O NEILL OR 20 MILES NORTH
NORTHWEST OF BURWELL MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 19 MPH. THIS STORM IS
EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING.
DAMAGING WIND...LARGEl HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE
ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

STASSER

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

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 7:11 AM CDT, 53 minutes before

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-071200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
710 AM CDT (610 AM MDT) SAT JUL 6 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES...

ARTHUR     BLAINE     BOYD       BROWN      CHASE      CHERRY
CUSTER     DEUEL      FRONTIER   GARDEN     GARFIELD   GRANT
HAYES      HOLT       HOOKER     KEITH      KEYA PAHA  LINCOLN
LOGAN      LOUP       MCPHERSON  PERKINS    ROCK       SHERIDAN
THOMAS     WHEELER

...STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
SHOULD BE ALERT AND READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING...

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
THIS EVENING ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA TODAY IN
WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. VERY MOIST AIR FLOWING INTO THE AREA
AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO DESTABILIZING THE
ATMOSPHERE. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF
THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS
COULD BECOME SEVERE.

FS

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 5, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.