Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 6:54 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports 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, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1996, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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, 7:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Milburn, NE | |
| Jul 28, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Merna, NE | |
| Jul 28, 7:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Broken Bow, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 282354 SVRLBF NEC041-290055- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 654 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 755 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...CUSTER COUNTY AT 652 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 33 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW OR 10 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF MILBURN MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... MILBURN BY 715 PM CDT ANSELMO BY 727 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SP
The 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, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 65 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.