Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 8:10 PM MDT for Hooker County, Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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 30, 1996, 8:10 PM MDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1996, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hooker County, NE, Thomas County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 8:25 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Mullen, NE | |
| May 30, 8:45 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Seneca, 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 310210 SVRLBF NEC091-171-310315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 910 PM CDT (810 PM MDT) THU MAY 30 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT (915 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EASTERN HOOKER COUNTY...THOMAS COUNTY AT 910 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM 10 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF MULLEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. NICKEL-SIZE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN SENECA AND THEDFORD BY 945 PM CDT. 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 30, 7:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
803 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
07445 PM 1 MILE NORTH OF ANTIOCH NE 0.88 INCH HAIL
05/30/96 SHERIDAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL ONE
MILE NORTH OF ANTIOCH
SPThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 25 min |
| May 30, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 43 min |
| May 30, 8:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 42 min |
| May 30, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 61 min |
| May 30, 9:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 65 min |
| May 31, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 58 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.