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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS North Platte, NE

May 15, 1996Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1996, 5:44 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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 15, 1996, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant60 min
May 14, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur40 min
May 14, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker67 min
May 14, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan63 min
May 14, 7:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFThomas69 min
May 14, 8:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry68 min
May 14, 10:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry, Hooker27 min
May 15, 5:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln50 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.