Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS North Platte, NE

May 30, 1996Brown County, Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 10:25 PM CDT for Brown County, Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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 30, 1996, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 10:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Ainsworth, 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 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, 8:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	25 min
May 30, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, Thomas	65 min
May 30, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	43 min
May 30, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	42 min
May 30, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	61 min
May 31, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	58 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.