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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS North Platte, NE

May 23, 1996Deuel County, Keith County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1996, 11:32 PM MDT for Deuel County, Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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: May 23, 1996, 11:32 PM MDT (05:32 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 12:15 AM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Deuel County, NE, Keith County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
May 23, 11:40 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Big Spgs, NE
May 23, 11:45 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Big Spgs, NE
May 24, 12:00 AM MDT	Hail 0.75	Brule, 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 397 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 240535
SVRLBF
NEC049-101-240615-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1232 AM CDT (1132 PM MDT) FRI MAY 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM CDT (1215 AM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...EASTERN DEUEL COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
 
   ...WESTERN KEITH COUNTY
 
AT 1132 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG SPRINGS...OR 30 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF OGALLALA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER
BIG SPRINGS BY 1145 AM MDT...AND TO NEAR OGALLALA BY 1215 AM MDT. THIS
INCLUDES THE LAKE MCCONAUGHY AREA.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS
SHOULD NOT DRIVE ONTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS.

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

Local storm report, May 23, 11:14 PM MDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1213 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1155 PM    3 W BRANDON               NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/23/96   PERKINS

MUTCHLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 10:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	58 min
May 23, 10:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Hooker, McPherson	67 min
May 24, 12:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Rock	62 min
May 24, 1:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every 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.