Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 6:13 PM MDT for Cherry County, Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 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, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1996, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherry County, NE, Hooker County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 6:45 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Mullen, NE | |
| Aug 4, 7:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Thedford, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 3040 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 050013 SVRLBF NEC031-091-050115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 713 PM CDT (613 PM MDT) SUN AUG 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT (715 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHWESTERN HOOKER COUNTY AT 711 PM CDT (611 PM MDT)...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES WEST OF MULLEN...NEAR WHITMAN... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 38 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... MULLEN BY 643 PM MDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSShIBLE. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JWS
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, 2 hours 9 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. MUTCHLERLocal storm report, Aug 4, 5:51 PM MDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
650 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 AM 15 S AINSWORTH NE WIND DAMAGE
08/04/96 BROWN TREES DOWN 12 INCHES IN
DIAMETER
0410 AM 4 SW ROSE NE WIND DAMAGE
08/04/96 ROCK NUMEROUS LIMBS DOWN 3 TO
4 INCHES IN DIAMETER
RLBLocal storm report, Aug 4, 5:57 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
656 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0631< PM 23 NNE OSHKOSH NE 1.50 INCH HAIL
08/04/96 GARDEN
RLBThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel, Keith | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 8:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 8:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 9:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 9:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 64 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.