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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS North Platte, NE

August 3, 1996Lincoln County, Nebraska

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.

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

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan65 min
Aug 2, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden50 min
Aug 3, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan63 min
Aug 3, 6:59 PM CDTSevere 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.