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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS North Platte, NE

July 28, 1996Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 4:39 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1996, 5:40 PM MDT
In force
61 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 22:39 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 12:00Z, 10.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 282240
SVRLBF
NEC161-282340-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
539 PM CDT (439 PM MDT) SUN JUL 28 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 540 PM MDT (640 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHWESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 437 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 21 MILES NORTH OF ALLIANCE OR 18 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST
OF HAY SPRINGS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  TWIN LAKES                   BY 507 PM MDT


 A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
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.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

JWS

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 28, 11:37 AM MDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1236 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 1996

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

01(25 AM    13 E ARTHUR               NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/28/96   ARTHUR

SLM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 10:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan53 min
Jul 28, 12:02 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur63 min
Jul 28, 12:12 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson53 min
Jul 28, 12:17 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson48 min
Jul 28, 12:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFDeuel63 min
Jul 28, 12:39 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith61 min
Jul 28, 4:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry47 min
Jul 28, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine65 min
Jul 28, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.