Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 1:57 PM MDT for Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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 25, 1996, 1:57 PM MDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hooker County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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 25, 2:30 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Mullen, NE | |
| Jul 25, 3:00 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Mullen, 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 252001 SVRLBF NEC091-252100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 257 PM CDT (157 PM MDT) THU JUL 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT (400 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHWESTERN HOOKER COUNTY AT 156 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES WEST OF MULLEN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 16 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. S.MUTCHLER
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 50 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. < 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 2:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 34 min |
| Jul 25, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 3:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 4:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 4:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 4:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 5:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 34 min |
| Jul 25, 5:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 34 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.