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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS North Platte, NE

May 15, 1996McPherson County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1996, 9:01 PM CDT for McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 59 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: May 15, 1996, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County McPherson County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 15, 9:10 PM CDT	Hail 3	Tryon, NE
May 15, 10:10 PM CDT	Hail 2	Tryon, 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 3202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 9.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 160203
SVRLBF
NEC117-160300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
901 PM CDT WED MAY 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY
 
AT 900 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
NORTH OF TRYON...OR 35 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORM WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY AND WAS PRODUCING HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USvE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL
MIDNIGHT CDT.
 
BOWMAN

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, May 15, 7:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
725 PM CDT WED MAY 15 1996

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

705( PM     4 MILES N OF OGALLALA     NE   DIME SIZED HAIL
05/15/96   KIETH

BIEKER

Local storm report, May 15, 7:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
752 PM CDT WED MAY 15 1996

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

074h5 PM    11E OF DUNNING            NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/15/96   BLAINE

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, May 15, 8:42 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
841 PM CDT WED MAY 15 1996

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

0740 PM    10 NE TRYON               NE   GOLFBALL-SIZED HAIL
05/15/96   MCPHERSON

BIEKER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	34 min
May 15, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	17 min
May 15, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	48 min
May 15, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson, Thomas	55 min
May 15, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	64 min
May 15, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	47 min
May 15, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson, Thomas	64 min
May 15, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant, Hooker	59 min
May 15, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	59 min
May 15, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	41 min
May 15, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	64 min
May 15, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson, Thomas	3 hr
May 15, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	31 min
May 15, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	59 min
May 15, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	65 min
May 15, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant, Hooker, McPherson	60 min
May 15, 10:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garden	39 min
May 15, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant	65 min
May 15, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	64 min
May 15, 11:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Grant	27 min
May 15, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	62 min
May 15, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant	66 min
May 15, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	59 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.