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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS North Platte, NE

May 24, 1996Holt County, Rock County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 2:44 AM CDT for Holt County, Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min. 2 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 24, 1996, 2:44 AM CDT (07:44 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Holt County, NE, Rock County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 2:50 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Ainsworth, NE
May 24, 3:00 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	O Neill, 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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 24, 12:14 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 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

Local storm report, May 24, 2:23 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	58 min
May 23, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Hooker, McPherson	67 min
May 24, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Keith	43 min
May 24, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Rock	62 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.