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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS North Platte, NE

June 4, 1996Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 4:44 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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
Jun 4, 1996, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1996, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 4, 5:00 PM MDTHail 1.75Elsmere, 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 12:00Z, 10.7 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 246 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
842 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 042244
SVRLBF
NEC031-042330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
544 PM CDT (444 PM MDT) TUE JUN 4 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 31 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF AINSWORTH OR 12 MILES EAST
OF BROWNLEE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 19 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED
TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY AND WILL BE 45 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF
VALENTINE IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST CHERRY COUNTY AROUND 630 PM CDT.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 3:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry47 min
Jun 4, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine, Thomas44 min
Jun 4, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFThomas31 min
Jun 4, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith35 min
Jun 4, 5:57 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFThomas33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.