Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE

May 8, 1996McPherson County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 8:27 PM CDT for McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County McPherson County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 8, 8:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Tryon, 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 090129
SVRLBF
NEC117-090215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
827 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...MCPHERSON COUNTY
 
AT 827 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 15
MILES NORTHEAST OF ARTHUR THROUGH 15 MILES EAST OF ARTHUR...OR ALONG
THE ARTHUR AND MCPHERSON COUNTY LINE...OR NEAR 35 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST 
MULLEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL MO
INTO CENTRAL MCPHERSON COUNTY BY 915 PM CDT (815 PM MDT).
 
AT 810 PM CDT...THIS STORM PRODUCED HAIL TO WALNUT SIZE 8 MILES NORTH OF
ARTHUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
&

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant	42 min
May 8, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	47 min
May 8, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan, McPherson	61 min
May 8, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	65 min
May 8, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	61 min
May 9, 12:38 AM CDT	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.