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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS North Platte, NE

August 9, 1996Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1996, 9:09 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 9, 1996, 9:09 PM MDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 1996, 9:55 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Garden County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 100309
SVRLBF
NEC069-100355-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1009 PM CDT (909 PM MDT) FRI AUG 9 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 955 PM MDT (1055 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

   ...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN GARDEN COUNTY
 
AT 907 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA OR 1 MILE NORTH OF
LEWELLEN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  LEWELLEN                     BY 910 PM MDT
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, Aug 9, 8:20 PM MDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
920 PM CDT FRI AUG 9 1996

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

0910j PM    11 S HAY SPRINGS          NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
08/09/96   SHERIDAN

BURNS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 7:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	64 min
Aug 10, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	51 min
Aug 10, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Wheeler	63 min
Aug 10, 3:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	48 min
Aug 10, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	64 min
Aug 10, 4:19 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Loup	31 min
Aug 10, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	62 min
Aug 10, 4:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	35 min
Aug 10, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	50 min
Aug 10, 5:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.