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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 3:33 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min. 3 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 7, 1996, 3:33 PM MDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 4:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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 7, 4:01 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Merriman, NE | |
| Jul 7, 4:05 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Merriman, NE | |
| Jul 7, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | 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 12:00Z, 9.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 072135 SVRLBF NEC031-072235- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 433 PM CDT (333 PM MDT) SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 535 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY AT 432 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 48 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF CHADRON OR 20 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF MERRIMAN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... MERRIMAN BY 515 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD 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
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 9:54 AM MDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-081200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1055 AM CDT (955 AM MDT) SUN JUL 7 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 SOUTHWEST...WEST CENTRAL AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD BE ALERT AND READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING WITH THE GREATEST THREAT WEST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE... TO BROKEN BOW...TO KEARNEY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTLOOK AREA BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. EASTERLY UPSLOPE WINDS WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY LIFT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS BY LATE AFTERNOON. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TO FURTHER ENHANCE THE CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. GEB
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 1:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 255 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996 ...MAIN CONCERN IS TSTMS...HOW LONG AND HOW BAD... TSTMS ALREADY FIRING OVR SW SD AND MOVG TO THE SOUTHEAST AND ALREADY SVR. THESE TSTMS ON THE NOSE OF HIGH DEW PT AXIS AND STORMS MAY DMNSH AS THEY MOVE INTO SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR. WOULD EXPECT THE MAIN THREAT TO COME LATER THIS EVENING OR EARLY TNGT WHEN SFC FRONT MOVES INTO THE REGION. COLD FRONT DEVELPING OVR ND-ERN MT THIS AFTN AND SHD QUICKLY DROP INTO TROF FROM ERN SD INTO NWRN NE. MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE AHEAD OF FRONT WITH UPSLOPE CONTINUING. NGM WOULD LOCATE FRONT FROM VTN TO LBF BY 06Z. 88D VAD INDICATES PROFILE BECOMING MORE FAVORABLE FOR SUPERCELL/ORGANIZED SVR. GOING FCST FOR TNGT LOOKS GOOD...POPS MAYBE A LITTLE STRONG. GOTTA GO... SVR TSTMS APPROACHING CWA. GEB
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 3:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 4:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.