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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS North Platte, NE

May 14, 1996Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 8:07 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 68 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: May 14, 1996, 8:07 PM MDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1996, 9:15 PM MDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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.

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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 150209
SVRLBF
NEC031-150315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
907 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY
 
AT 905 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST
OF IRWIN...OR 70 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD BE 15 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN AT 940 PM CDT.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEA"THER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
BOWMAN

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, 6:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 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, 7:17 PM MDT, 50 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

Local storm report, May 14, 7:39 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

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

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

082b9 PM    MULLEN                    NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   HOOKER

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, May 14, 7:43 PM MDT, 24 minutes before

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

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

0811 PM    WHITECLAY                 NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   SHERIDAN

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, May 14, 7:58 PM MDT, 9 minutes before

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

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

0845 PM    SENECA                    NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   THOMAS

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, May 14, 8:01 PM MDT, 6 minutes before

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

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

0825 PM    WHITECLAY                 NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/14/96   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, 6:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	60 min
May 14, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	40 min
May 14, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	67 min
May 14, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	63 min
May 14, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	69 min
May 14, 10:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker	27 min
May 15, 5:40 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	50 min
May 15, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.