Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 324, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1996, 4:32 PM CDT for Garfield County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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
- Aug 10, 1996, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1996, 5:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garfield County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 4:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Burwell, NE | |
| Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Burwell, NE | |
| Aug 10, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Burwell, NE | |
| Aug 10, 5:24 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Burwell, 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 10:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-111200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE...CORRECTED 1038 AM CDT (938 AM MDT) SAT AUG 10 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES... ARTHUR BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHASE CHERRY CUSTER DEUEL FRONTIER GARDEN GARFIELD GRANT HAYES HOLT HOOKER KEITH KEYA PAHA LINCOLN LOGAN LOUP MCPHERSON PERKINS ROCK SHERIDAN THOMAS WHEELER ...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE IN PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON... WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE IN PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST RISK FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM OGALLALA TO NORTH PLATTE. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL EXTEND NORTH INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON. THE TROUGH WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. LESS CLOUDS...AFTERNOON HEATING AND SUFFICIENT MOISTURE WILL HELP TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE WITH THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DO DEVELOP CAPABLE OF BECOMING SEVERE. OVER NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA NO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED. DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE IN DURING THE AFTERNOON AND INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. WOOD
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 51 min |
| Aug 10, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Wheeler | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Loup | 31 min |
| Aug 10, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.