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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS North Platte, NE

July 25, 1996Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 4:19 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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 25, 1996, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1996, 5:20 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Custer County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 25, 4:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Callaway, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 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

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

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 11:07 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 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

Local storm report, Jul 25, 3:36 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
335 PM CDT THU JUL 25 1996

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

0325 PM    11 NE NORTH PLATTE        NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/25/96   LINCOLN

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	61 min
Jul 25, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	63 min
Jul 25, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	60 min
Jul 25, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
Jul 25, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	61 min
Jul 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	34 min
Jul 25, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	61 min
Jul 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 min
Jul 25, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	65 min
Jul 25, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	63 min
Jul 25, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	61 min
Jul 25, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	64 min
Jul 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	63 min
Jul 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	61 min
Jul 25, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 min
Jul 25, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	63 min
Jul 25, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	62 min
Jul 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	65 min
Jul 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	64 min
Jul 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	47 min
Jul 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	62 min
Jul 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	65 min
Jul 25, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Perkins	62 min
Jul 25, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	42 min
Jul 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Deuel	62 min
Jul 25, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	34 min
Jul 25, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	63 min
Jul 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	47 min
Jul 25, 6:41 PM CDT	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.