Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1996, 11:16 AM CDT for Custer County, Logan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 2, 1996, 11:16 AM CDT (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1996, 12:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Custer County, NE, Logan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 11:17 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Stapleton, NE | |
| Aug 2, 11:40 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Callaway, NE | |
| Aug 2, 12:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Oconto, 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 021617 SVRLBF NEC041-113-021720- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1116 AM CDT FRI AUG 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1220 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY AT 1114 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 8 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF GANDY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 26 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. 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. 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
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 7:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-031200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 725 AM CDT (625 AM MDT) FRI AUG 2 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES... ARTHUR BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHASE CHERRY CUSTER DEUEL FRONTIER GARDEN GARFIELD GRANT HAYES HOLT HOOKER KEITH KEYA PAHA LINCOLN LOGAN LOUP MCPHERSON PERKINS ROCK SHERIDAN THOMAS WHEELER ...STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE ACTIVATED THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING WITH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS. A STATIONARY FRONT AND HOT HUMID WEATHER ON THE PLAINS WILL COMBINE TO TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...A FEW OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. THE THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING EARLY THIS MORNING IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE ARE NOT LIKELY TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. SPRINGER
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 11:00 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-031200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1100 AM CDT (1000 AM MDT) FRI AUG 2 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES... ARTHUR BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHASE CHERRY CUSTER DEUEL FRONTIER GARDEN GARFIELD GRANT HAYES HOLT HOOKER KEITH KEYA PAHA LINCOLN LOGAN LOUP MCPHERSON PERKINS ROCK SHERIDAN THOMAS WHEELER ...STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING OVER THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. A STATIONARY FRONT OVER THE WESTERN OUTLOOK AREA AND MOIST SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO PUMP MOISTURE INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA. UPSLOPE FLOW COMBINED WITH STRONG DIURNAL HEATING AND LIFT ALONG THE STATIONARY FRONT WILL HELP TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. MICHELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 12:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 31 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.