Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS North Platte, NE

August 10, 1996Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1996, 5:23 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 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 10, 1996, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1996, 6:25 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Custer County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 10, 6:10 PM CDTHail 2.75Oconto, 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, 10.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1996-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 82 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1996-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan64 min
Aug 9, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden46 min
Aug 10, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt51 min
Aug 10, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt, Wheeler63 min
Aug 10, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield48 min
Aug 10, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield64 min
Aug 10, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFLoup31 min
Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuster35 min
Aug 10, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield50 min
Aug 10, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuster33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.