Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 6:58 PM MDT for Arthur 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
- May 8, 1996, 6:58 PM MDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Arthur County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:10 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Arthur, 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 090100 SVRLBF NEC005-090145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 758 PM CDT (658 PM MDT) WED MAY 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT (745 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHERN AND EASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY AT 758 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF ARTHUR..OR 37 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULLEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR THREE MILE LAKE...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARTHUR BY 820 PM CDT (720 PM MDT). WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 42 min |
| May 8, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 63 min |
| May 8, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 61 min |
| May 8, 9:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 65 min |
| May 8, 10:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| May 8, 11:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 67 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.