Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 6:53 AM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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 15, 1996, 6:53 AM MDT (12:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 7:40 AM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:54 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 15, 7:20 AM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Antioch, 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
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 15, 6:43 AM MDT, 10 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-161200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 739 AM CDT (639 AM MDT) THU AUG 15 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 AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE WEST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE TO BROKEN BOW. A SEMI-STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDRY WILL FLUCTUATE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE INTO FAR WESTERN NEBRASKA TODAY...THEN RETURN TO TO THE SOUTHWEST THIS EVENING. THE FRONT WILL BE THE MAIN FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN WESTERN NEBRASKA WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE AS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE SOUTHEAST TODAY AND TONIGHT. UPSLOPE WINDS...ABUNDENT MOISTURE AND AFTERNOON HEATING WILL ALSO ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PORTIONS BY LATE AFTERNOON...INTO THE EVENING. WOOD
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 7:09 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 8:03 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 62 min |
| Aug 15, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 4:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 63 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.