Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1996, 2:56 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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 3, 1996, 2:56 AM CDT (07:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1996, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 030801 COR SVRLBF NEC111-030845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 256 AM CDT SAT AUG 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 254 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 4 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... MAXWELL BY 321 AM CDT AT 2:50 AM CDT...1 1/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE NORTH PLATTE AIRPORT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER...WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE SHELTER. SLM
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, 11:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
NEZ004-022-056-030500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1129 PM CDT (1029 PM MDT) FRI AUG 2 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MDT... HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SHERIDAN...GARDEN AND DEUEL COUNTIES IN THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. STORMS HAD MOVED EAST WITH THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENDING OVER THE PANHANDLE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES OF BROWN...CHERRY...KEYA PAHA...ROCK...ARTHUR...GRANT..HOOKER...LOGAN... MCPHERSON...THOMAS...BLAINE...CUSTER...LOUP...KEITH AND LINCOLN IN WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 4 AM CDT. WOOD
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 12:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
NEZ004-022-056-030500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1210 AM CDT (1110 PM MDT) SAT AUG 3 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 906 ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD WEAKENED AND WERE NO LONGER A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 61 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.