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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS North Platte, NE

July 27, 1996Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1996, 12:46 AM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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 27, 1996, 12:46 AM MDT (06:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1996, 1:50 AM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -1.1

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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, 10:21 PM MDT, 2 hours 25 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.

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, 8:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith	63 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

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.