Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 8:06 PM CDT for Brown County, Nebraska. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1996, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 050107 SVRLBF NEC017-050205- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 806 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 905 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...BROWN COUNTY AT 805 PM CDT NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF AINSWORTH TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AINSWORTH. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT THE AINSWORTH AREA THROUGH 845 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. 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, 5:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 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, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 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, 6:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 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
RLBLocal storm report, Aug 4, 7:58 PM CDT, 8 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. MUTCHLERLocal storm report, Aug 4, 8:02 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
801 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM 20 S WHITMAN NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/96 GRANT
0745 PM 13 W MULLEN NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/96 HOOKER
M. MUTCHLERThe 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, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.