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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS North Platte, NE

July 27, 1996Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1996, 10:52 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 53 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, 10:52 PM MDT (04:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1996, 11:45 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 280452
SVRLBF
NEC161-280545-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1152 PM CDT (1052 PM MDT) SAT JUL 27 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM MDT (1245 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 1050 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 25 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ALLIANCE OR 6 MILES EAST
SOUTHEAST OF TWIN LAKES MOVING EAST AT 34 MPH. THIS STORM IS
EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS TO THE NORTH OF LAKESIDE AND
ELLSWORTH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

M. MUTCHLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 12:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	63 min
Jul 28, 12:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	53 min
Jul 28, 12:17 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	48 min
Jul 28, 12:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	63 min
Jul 28, 12:39 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	61 min
Jul 28, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	47 min
Jul 28, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	61 min
Jul 28, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	65 min
Jul 28, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.