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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS North Platte, NE

July 26, 1996Keya Paha County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT for Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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 26, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1996, 8:10 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Keya Paha County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 26, 7:45 PM CDTHail 1.75Springview, 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 718 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 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
718 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 270028
SVRLBF
NEC103-270110-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
725 PM CDT FRI JUL 26 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 810 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...WESTERN AND CENTRAL KEYA PAHA COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 25 MILES NORTH OF AINSWORTH OR 9 MILES EAST NORTHEAST
OF NORDEN MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 18 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  SPRINGVIEW                   BY 802 PM CDT
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

WERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan65 min
Jul 26, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden, Grant50 min
Jul 26, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Keya Paha51 min
Jul 26, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Garden50 min
Jul 26, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine48 min
Jul 26, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan60 min
Jul 26, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Keith63 min
Jul 26, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown66 min
Jul 26, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup63 min
Jul 26, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield50 min
Jul 26, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine, Brown, Loup64 min
Jul 26, 11:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRock36 min
Jul 27, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRock50 min
Jul 27, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup66 min
Jul 27, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup50 min
Jul 27, 1:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster63 min
Jul 27, 1:46 AM CDTSevere 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.