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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS North Platte, NE

July 22, 1996Keith County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1996, 8:50 AM MDT for Keith 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, 8:50 AM MDT (14:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1996, 9:50 AM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Keith County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 22, 9:15 AM MDT	Hail 1	Brule, 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 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, 7:30 AM MDT, 1 hour 20 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

Local storm report, Jul 22, 7:43 AM MDT, 1 hour 7 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

WERT

Local storm report, Jul 22, 7:50 AM MDT, 1 hour 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    NORTH PLATTE              NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
07/22/96   LINCOLN

WERT

Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:08 AM MDT, 42 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

WERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	65 min
Jul 21, 7:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	30 min
Jul 21, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	63 min
Jul 22, 5:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	48 min
Jul 22, 5:16 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant	49 min
Jul 22, 5:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	60 min
Jul 22, 6:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	62 min
Jul 22, 6:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	64 min
Jul 22, 6:55 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	50 min
Jul 22, 7:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	65 min
Jul 22, 7:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	60 min
Jul 22, 8:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	58 min
Jul 22, 9:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	33 min
Jul 22, 9:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	64 min
Jul 22, 9:38 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Perkins	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every 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.