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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 305, NWS North Platte, NE

August 4, 1996Thomas County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 7:58 PM CDT for Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Thomas County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 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

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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, 5:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 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

Local storm report, Aug 4, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 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

RLB

Local storm report, Aug 4, 6:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute 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

RLB

Local storm report, Aug 4, 7:58 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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

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

0700 PM    15 NW ARTHUR              NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/04/96   ARTHUR

0708 PM    13 NW ARTHUR              NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
08/04/96   ARTHUR

0708 PM    13 NW ARTHUR              NE   WIND DAMAGE
08/04/96   ARTHUR                         SEVERAL VERY LARGE TREE
                                          LIMBS DOWN

M. MUTCHLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker	62 min
Aug 4, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	62 min
Aug 4, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	31 min
Aug 4, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	59 min
Aug 4, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Keith	57 min
Aug 4, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	59 min
Aug 4, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	63 min
Aug 4, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	60 min
Aug 4, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	34 min
Aug 4, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	64 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.