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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS North Platte, NE

August 6, 1996Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1996, 5:28 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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 6, 1996, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Custer County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 6, 5:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Anselmo, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 1588 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -293 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 062230
SVRLBF
NEC041-062300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
528 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY
 
AT 527 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST
OF ANSELMO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 34 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  MILBURN                      BY 545 PM CDT
 
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 POSSIBLE.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEMZ TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

JWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	49 min
Aug 6, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	66 min
Aug 6, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	62 min
Aug 6, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	49 min
Aug 6, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	58 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.