Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS North Platte, NE

Issued

Aug 14, 1996, 12:51 PM MDT (18:51 UTC)

Expired

Aug 14, 1996, 1:55 PM MDT

In force

64 min

Issued by

NWS North Platte, NE

Area

Whole counties

County Perkins County, NE

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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.

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.

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TTAA00 KLBF 141851
SVRLBF
NEC135-141955-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
151 PM CDT (1251 PM MDT) WED AUG 14 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 155 PM MDT (255 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...PERKINS COUNTY
 
AT 1250 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 13 MILES SOUTH OF OGALLALA OR 6 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST
OF GRANT MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  GRANT                        BY 105 PM MDT
  MADRID                       BY 121 PM MDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

MICHELS

In the hours before

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-151200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1130 AM CDT (1030 AM MDT) WED AUG 14 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 MAY BE REQUIRED OVER PARTS OF WESTERN
NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM RUSHVILLE TO NORTH PLATTE.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE
REST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL SAG SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA BY AFTERNOON. THIS FRONT WILL BEGIN TO MOVE EASTWARD OVER
THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE AREA AS A WARM FRONT AND IS EXPECTED TO
TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS OVER THIS AREA. AT THE SURFACE...A MOIST
SOUTHEASTERLY WIND WILL BRING ADDITIONAL MOISTURE INTO THE WESTERN
PORTION OF THE AREA. THIS AIRMASS WILL BECOME UNSTABLE BY MID AFTERNOON
AND AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO THE AREA...A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE BY LATE AFTERNOON.

FS

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.