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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS North Platte, NE

July 27, 1996Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1996, 1:32 AM CDT for Custer 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 27, 1996, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1996, 2:35 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Custer County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 27, 1:50 AM CDTHail 1Sargent, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 270632
SVRLBF
NEC041-270735-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
132 AM CDT SAT JUL 27 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 235 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY
 
AT 131 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 30 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW OR 9 MILES NORTH
OF SARGENT MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  SARGENT                      BY 151 AM CDT
  COMSTOCK                 $    BY 203 AM CDT
 
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, 7:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 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
Local storm report, Jul 26, 11:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1119 PM CDT FRI JUL 26 1996

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

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

0745 PM    14 NW SPRINGVIEW          NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   KEYA PAHA

0800 PM    6 S BINGHAM               NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   GARDEN

0800 PM    6 S BINGHAM               NE   WIND DAMAGE
07/26/96   GARDEN                         SEVERAL 4 TO 6 INCH TREE
                                          LIMBS DOWN
0830 PM    17 SW HYANNIS             NE   WIND DAMAGE
07/26/96   GRANT                          SEVERAL LARGE TREE
                                          BRANCHES DOWN

0830 PM    10 NW ARTHUR              NE   2.00 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   ARTHUR

0908 PM    6 E DUNNING               NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   BLAINE

0915 xPM    BREWSTER                  NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   BLAINE

0917 PM    4 E BREWSTER              NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   BLAINE

1023 PM    10 N BURWELL              NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   GARFIELD

M. MUTCHLER

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, 9:42 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, 1:46 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.