Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1996, 9:12 AM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min. 2 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 22, 1996, 9:12 AM CDT (14:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1996, 10:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 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 22, 9:30 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Moorefield, NE | |
| Jul 22, 9:44 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Stockville, 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 221415 SVRLBF NEC063-221510- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 912 AM CDT MON JUL 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...FRONTIER COUNTY AT 912 AM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR EXTENDING FROM NEAR GOTHENBURG TO NEAR MOOREFIELD TO 10 MILES EAST OF WELLFLEET. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 43 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... STOCKVILLE BY 929 AM CDT EUS\TIS BY 933 AM CDT MEDICINE CREEK DAM BY 941 AM CDT IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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, 42 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
WERTLocal storm report, Jul 22, 8:43 AM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME AND LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
845 AM CDT MON JUL 22 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1205 AM 25 SE RUSHVILLE NE 0.88 INCH HAIL
07/21/96 SHERIDAN
WERTLocal storm report, Jul 22, 8:50 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
850 AM CDT MON JUL 22 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 AM 15 SE HYANNIS NE 0.88 INCH HAIL
07/22/96 GRANT
0715 AM 17 W TRYON NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/22/96 MCPHERSON
0817 AM NORTH PLATTE NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/22/96 LINCOLN
0819 AM NORT H PLATTE NE 0.88 INCH HAIL
07/22/96 LINCOLN
WERTLocal storm report, Jul 22, 9:08 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
908 AM CDT MON JUL 22 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
090J0 PM 15 NE NORTH PLATTE NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/21/96 LINCOLN
WERTThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 30 min |
| Jul 21, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 6:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 6:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, McPherson | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 50 min |
| Jul 22, 8:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 10:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 10:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 32 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.