Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 6:18 PM MDT for Arthur County, Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 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
- May 8, 1996, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Arthur County, NE, Grant County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:25 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Arthur, NE | |
| May 8, 6:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Arthur, NE | |
| May 8, 7:10 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Arthur, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBF 090018
SVRLBF
NEC005-075-090100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
618 PM MDT WED MAY 8 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHERN ARTHUR...SOUTHERN GRANT
AT 615 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CENTERED 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALLIANCE...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ASHBY TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARTHUR. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR. AT ITS PRESENT MOVEMENT THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO
CROSS HIGHWAY 61 SOUTH OF HYANNIS AROUND 645 PM MDT.
REMEMBlER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!
SPRINGER/PARKERThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 47 min |
| May 8, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 63 min |
| May 8, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 61 min |
| May 8, 9:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 65 min |
| May 8, 10:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| May 8, 11:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 67 min |
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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.