Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 12:30 AM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 2 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 4, 1996, 12:30 AM MDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1996, 1:20 AM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 12:35 AM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Hyannis, NE | |
| Aug 4, 12:50 AM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Whitman, 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 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1795 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 040631 SVRLBF NEC075-040720- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 130 AM CDT (1230 AM MDT) SUN AUG 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 120 AM MDT (220 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...CENTRAL AND EASTERN GRANT COUNTY AT 1229 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 44 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MULLEN OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF ASHBY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 28 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... HYANNIS BY 1240 AM MDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BOWMAN
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 3, 9:08 PM MDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1007 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM 4 NE HAY SPRINGS NE WIND DAMAGE
08/03/96 SHERIDAN SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS
DOWNED
1002 PM 4 NE HAY SPRINGS NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/03/96 SHERIDAN
WERTSpecial weather statement, Aug 3, 9:25 PM MDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
NEZ004-005-022>025-035>037-056>059-069>071-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1024 PM CDT (924 PM MDT) SAT AUG 3 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 909 CANCELLED FOR MOST OF WESTERN NEBRASKA AND THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH HAD BEEN IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT (1100 PM MDT) FOR MUCH OF WESTERN NEBRASKA AND THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE HAS BEEN CANCELLED...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CHERRY AND SHERIDAN COUNTY...WHERE THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED THROUGH AT LEAST MIDNIGHT CDT OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AND OVER GARDEN AND DEUEL COUNTIES IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. FURTHER NORTH OVER SHERIDAN AND CHERRY COUNTY...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH WILL CONTINUE IN EFFECT FOR THESE TWO COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT (1100 PM MDT). WERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 10:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 10:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 11:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 12:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 1:10 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 1:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 1:51 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 64 min |
| Aug 4, 2:14 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Loup, Rock | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 2:14 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 67 min |
| Aug 4, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 5:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Arthur | 34 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.