Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 5:52 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. 2 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 15, 1996, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 6:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 23:55 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, 6:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellsworth, NE | |
| Aug 15, 6:25 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Lakeside, 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, 11.9 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 152352 SVRLBF NEC161-160055- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 652 PM CDT (552 PM MDT) THU AUG 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM MDT (755 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA ...EAST CENTRAL SHERIDAN COUNTY AT 550 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 35 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF CHADRON OR 8 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF RUSHVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 17 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SP/FS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 6:53 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 47 min |
| 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 |
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.