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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS North Platte, NE

July 26, 1996Arthur County, Keith County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 8:07 PM MDT for Arthur County, Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1996, 8:07 PM MDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1996, 9:10 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Arthur County, NE, Keith County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 270210
SVRLBF
NEC005-101-270310-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
907 PM CDT (807 PM MDT) FRI JUL 26 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 910 PM MDT (1010 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHWESTERN ARTHUR COUNTY

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHWESTERN KEITH COUNTY
 
AT 807 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 26 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA OR 12 MILES WEST
SOUTHWEST OF ARTHUR MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 31 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  LEMOYNE                      BY 835 PM MDT
  KINGSLEY DAM                 BY 840 PM MDT
 
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.

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, 6:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 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, 6:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	65 min
Jul 26, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha	45 min
Jul 26, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant	50 min
Jul 26, 7:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha	51 min
Jul 26, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden	50 min
Jul 26, 7:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	48 min
Jul 26, 7:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	60 min
Jul 26, 8:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	66 min
Jul 26, 8:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	63 min
Jul 26, 8:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	50 min
Jul 26, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Loup	64 min
Jul 26, 10:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	36 min
Jul 26, 11:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	50 min
Jul 26, 11:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	66 min
Jul 27, 12:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	50 min
Jul 27, 12:32 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	63 min
Jul 27, 12:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.