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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS North Platte, NE

July 26, 1996Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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 26, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1996, 7:05 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 26, 6:05 PM MDTHail 1.75Rushville, NE
Jul 26, 7:00 PM MDTHail 0.88Bingham, 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1996-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 851 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1996-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-1.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 270004
SVRLBF
NEC161-270105-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
700 PM CDT (600 PM MDT) FRI JUL 26 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 705 PM MDT (805 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 558 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 33 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALLIANCE OR 8 MILES EAST
NORTHEAST OF SMITH LAKE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 36 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  ELLSWORTH                    BY 639 PM MDT
  BINGHAM                      BY 655 PM MDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSStIBLE.

MICHELS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha45 min
Jul 26, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden, Grant50 min
Jul 26, 7:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Keya Paha51 min
Jul 26, 7:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Garden50 min
Jul 26, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine48 min
Jul 26, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan60 min
Jul 26, 8:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Keith63 min
Jul 26, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown66 min
Jul 26, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup63 min
Jul 26, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield50 min
Jul 26, 9:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine, Brown, Loup64 min
Jul 26, 10:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRock36 min
Jul 26, 11:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRock50 min
Jul 26, 11:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup66 min
Jul 27, 12:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup50 min
Jul 27, 12:32 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster63 min
Jul 27, 12:46 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every 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.