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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS North Platte, NE

July 26, 1996Brown County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 8:09 PM CDT for Brown County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brown County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 26, 8:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Ainsworth, 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 270113
SVRLBF
NEC017-103-270200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY
   ...SOUTHWESTERN KEYA PAHA COUNTY
 
AT 811 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES NORTH OF AINSWORTH OR 7 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST
OF SPRINGVIEW MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 16 MPH. THIS STORM IS
EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.
 
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

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

Local storm report, Jul 26, 7:39 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
738 PM CDT FRI JUL 26 1996

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

0600 PM    9 W WHITECLAY             NE   1.50 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   SHERIDAN

0615 PM    8 N RUSHVILLE             NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   SHERIDAN

0705 PM    10 S RUSHVILLE            NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   SHERIDAN

WERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	65 min
Jul 26, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha	45 min
Jul 26, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant	50 min
Jul 26, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden	50 min
Jul 26, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	48 min
Jul 26, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	60 min
Jul 26, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith	63 min
Jul 26, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	66 min
Jul 26, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	63 min
Jul 26, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	50 min
Jul 26, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Loup	64 min
Jul 26, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	36 min
Jul 27, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	50 min
Jul 27, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	66 min
Jul 27, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	50 min
Jul 27, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	63 min
Jul 27, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	64 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.