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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS North Platte, NE

August 10, 1996Garfield County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1996, 6:10 PM CDT for Garfield County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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 10, 1996, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
50 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 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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.

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, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster62 min
Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuster35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.