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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 284, NWS North Platte, NE

August 2, 1996Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1996, 9:20 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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
Aug 2, 1996, 9:20 PM MDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1996, 10:10 PM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Garden County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2000 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 166 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2000 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
14.6

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 8:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan65 min
Aug 3, 1:56 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln49 min
Aug 3, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan63 min
Aug 3, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan61 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.