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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 301, NWS North Platte, NE

August 4, 1996Arthur County, Grant County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 5:40 PM MDT for Arthur County, Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min. 4 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, 5:40 PM MDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1996, 6:40 PM MDT
In force: 60 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
Aug 4, 6:00 PM MDT	Hail 1	Arthur, NE
Aug 4, 6:08 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Arthur, NE
Aug 4, 6:20 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Whitman, NE
Aug 4, 6:45 PM 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 12:00Z, 11.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -3.5

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The text

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

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 4, 4:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
503 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1205 AM    30 W MERRIMAN             NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
08/04/96   CHERRY

1205 AM    30 W MERRIMAN             NE   WIND DAMAGE
08/04/96   CHERRY                         POWERLINES DOWN

1230 AM    31 SSW GORDON             NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/96   SHERIDAN

0135 AM    HYANNIS                   NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/96   GRANT

0150 AM    4 NE WHITMAN              NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/96   GRANT

0150 AM    4 NE MERRIMAN             NE   WIND DAMAGE
08/04/96   CHERRY                         SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS
                                          DOWN

0230 AM    MULLEN                    NE   60 MPH WIND GUST
08/04/96   HOOKER

0300 AM    17 N THEDFORD             NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/96   CHERRY

0315 AM    THEDFORD                  NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/96   THOMAS

M. MUTCHLER

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, 12:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	50 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, 5:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.