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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS North Platte, NE

July 25, 1996Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 1:24 PM MDT for Cherry 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
Jul 25, 1996, 1:24 PM MDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1996, 2:25 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 1996-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 38 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 1996-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 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
38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 251927
SVRLBF
NEC031-252025-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
224 PM CDT (124 PM MDT) THU JUL 25 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY
 
AT 224 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 23 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF MULLEN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
14 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.
 
IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.



SP

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

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 10:07 AM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-261200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1105 AM CDT (1005 AM MDT) THU JUL 25 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

...ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS IS POSSIBLE LATE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA BY EARLY EVENING. THEN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS AFTER 600
PM CDT AND WEST OF A LINE FROM RUSHVILLE TO IMPERIAL.
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HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE WEAKENING...RESULTING IN MORE INSTABILITY.6
AS A RESULT...THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG WITH ISOLATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.

THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME
SEVERE THIS MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON.

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 1:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker63 min
Jul 25, 2:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan60 min
Jul 25, 2:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln62 min
Jul 25, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant61 min
Jul 25, 2:51 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFHooker34 min
Jul 25, 3:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden, Sheridan61 min
Jul 25, 3:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln64 min
Jul 25, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson65 min
Jul 25, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster61 min
Jul 25, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson63 min
Jul 25, 3:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker61 min
Jul 25, 3:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden64 min
Jul 25, 3:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur63 min
Jul 25, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith61 min
Jul 25, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln61 min
Jul 25, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes63 min
Jul 25, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden62 min
Jul 25, 4:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith65 min
Jul 25, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFDeuel64 min
Jul 25, 4:28 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeith47 min
Jul 25, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier62 min
Jul 25, 4:40 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln65 min
Jul 25, 4:58 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFPerkins62 min
Jul 25, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden42 min
Jul 25, 5:08 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFDeuel62 min
Jul 25, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith34 min
Jul 25, 5:32 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFChase, Hayes63 min
Jul 25, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier47 min
Jul 25, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.