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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS North Platte, NE

July 26, 1996Loup County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 9:42 PM CDT for Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Loup County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 26, 10:00 PM CDTHail 1.75Taylor, 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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

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

Local storm report, Jul 26, 7:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan65 min
Jul 26, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha45 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, 9:55 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.