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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 311, NWS North Platte, NE

August 4, 1996Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 10:26 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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, 10:26 PM CDT (03:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Holt County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 4, 10:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Atkinson, 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 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, 6:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 6:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 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

RLB

Local storm report, Aug 4, 7:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 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

Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 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. MUTCHLER

Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 9:57 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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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, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	47 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, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	64 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.