Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS North Platte, NE

May 30, 1996Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 8:17 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1996, 8:17 PM MDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1996, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 302 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 170 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 30, 7:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase25 min
May 30, 8:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker, Thomas65 min
May 30, 8:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase42 min
May 30, 8:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes61 min
May 30, 9:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Cherry65 min
May 31, 5:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.