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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS North Platte, NE

July 28, 1996Deuel County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 12:27 AM MDT for Deuel County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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 28, 1996, 12:27 AM MDT (06:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1996, 1:30 AM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Deuel County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 663 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 280626
SVRLBF
NEC049-280730-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
127 AM CDT (1227 AM MDT) SUN JUL 28 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM MDT (230 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

   ...EASTERN DEUEL COUNTY
 
AT 1225 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 26 MILES WEST OF OGALLALA OR 7 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF
BIG SPRINGS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  BIG SPRINGS                  BY 1242 AM MDT
 
IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

M. MUTCHLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 10:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	53 min
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, 12:39 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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.