Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS North Platte, NE

July 22, 1996Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1996, 8:30 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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 22, 1996, 8:30 AM CDT (13:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1996, 9:30 AM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:29 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 22, 8:40 AM CDTHail 1.75North Platte, 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 15 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1996-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1041 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1996-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1041 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 22, 8:30 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
830 AM CDT MON JUL 22 1996

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

123$0 AM    25 S RUSHVILLE            NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
07/21/96   SHERIDAN

WERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan65 min
Jul 21, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFLogan30 min
Jul 21, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln63 min
Jul 22, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant48 min
Jul 22, 6:16 AM CDTTornado WarningLBFArthur, Grant49 min
Jul 22, 6:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson60 min
Jul 22, 7:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown62 min
Jul 22, 7:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln, McPherson64 min
Jul 22, 7:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry50 min
Jul 22, 8:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRock65 min
Jul 22, 9:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier58 min
Jul 22, 9:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith60 min
Jul 22, 10:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFDeuel33 min
Jul 22, 10:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFPerkins64 min
Jul 22, 10:38 AM CDTTornado WarningLBFPerkins32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.