Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS North Platte, NE

Issued

Jul 15, 1996, 3:30 PM MDT (21:30 UTC)

Expired

Jul 15, 1996, 4:20 PM MDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS North Platte, NE

Area

Whole counties

County Garden County, NE

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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.

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.

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TTAA00 KLBF 152131
SVRLBF
NEC069-152220-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
430 PM CDT (330 PM MDT) MON JUL 15 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 420 PM MDT (520 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

   ...EAST CENTRAL GARDEN COUNTY
 
AT 329 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 44 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA OR 7 MILES EAST
SOUTHEAST OF CRESCENT LAKE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 29 MPH. THIS
STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY.



 A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDRERSTORMS 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.

In the hours before

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-161200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1100 AM CDT (1000 AM MDT) MON JUL 15 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 PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA SHOULD BE ALERT AND READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS EVENING
AND TONIGHT...

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BY EARLY EVENING
ACROSS THE WESTERN MOST PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA INITIALLY THEN
TO WEST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE TO BROKEN BOW BY TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE REMAINDER
OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS.

AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FOOTHILLS OF THE ROCKIES
BY AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL TRANSPORT
WARM AIR AND ADDITIONAL MOISTURE BACK INTO THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA. THE RESULT WILL BE A DESTABILIZING ATMOSPHERE
ALLOWING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS BY LATE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE
WEST. AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA
TONIGHT...ADDITIONAL ENERGY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO
BECOME SEVERE OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA INITIALLY.

JWS

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.