Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS North Platte, NE

August 1, 1996Hooker County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1996, 5:36 PM MDT for Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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: Aug 1, 1996, 5:36 PM MDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 1996, 6:40 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Hooker County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 1, 6:00 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Mullen, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Aug 1, 3:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
401 PM CDT THU AUG 1 1996

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

0352 PM    13 SW MULLEN              NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
08/01/96   HOOKER

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	45 min
Aug 1, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	66 min
Aug 1, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	62 min
Aug 1, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	64 min
Aug 1, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	61 min
Aug 1, 4:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
Aug 1, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	65 min
Aug 1, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	34 min
Aug 1, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	60 min
Aug 1, 5:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	66 min
Aug 1, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.