Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT for Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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 27, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1996, 2:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Loup County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 1:25 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Taylor, 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, 6.3 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 270615 SVRLBF NEC115-270705- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 115 AM CDT SAT JUL 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 205 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHEASTERN LOUP COUNTY AT 114 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 37 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW OR 8 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ALMERIA MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 24 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... TAYLOR BY 145 AM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMXS 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.
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, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha | 51 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, 1:32 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.