Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 6:25 PM CDT for Blaine County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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 28, 1996, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blaine County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Brewster, 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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 282326 SVRLBF NEC009-290030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 625 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EASTERN BLAINE COUNTY AT 623 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 34 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF AINSWORTH OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWSTER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 27 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... BREWSTER BY 648 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. 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. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SP
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, 12:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 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
SLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 53 min |
| Jul 28, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 53 min |
| Jul 28, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 61 min |
| Jul 28, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 47 min |
| Jul 28, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jul 28, 6:54 PM CDT | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.