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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS North Platte, NE

September 6, 1996Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1996, 4:16 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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
Sep 6, 1996, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1996, 4:50 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 6, 4:25 PM CDTHail 0.75North Platte, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 15 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 1996-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 220 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 1996-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 062118
SVRLBF
NEC111-062150-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
416 PM CDT FRI SEP 6 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 450 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 415 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE MOVING NORTH
NORTHEAST AT 27 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  NORTH PLATTE                 BY 431 PM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
D@ESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

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, Sep 6, 11:31 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-071200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1130 AM CDT (1030 AM MDT) FRI SEP 6 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 IS NOT ANTICIPATED...

THERE IS A CHANCE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT OVER WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. HOWEVER...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING WEST OF A LINE FROM AINSWORTH TO NORTH
PLATTE.  THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE REST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA
TONIGHT AS THE FRONT MAKES FURTHER PROGRESS EAST.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE NOT EXPECTED DUE TO A MARGINALLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE.

FS

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.