Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS North Platte, NE
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 4:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | North 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.
- 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
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
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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.