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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS North Platte, NE

June 4, 1996Thomas County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 7:37 PM CDT for Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1996, 8:40 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Thomas County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 7:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Thedford, 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 923 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 050037
SVRLBF
NEC171-050140-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
737 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 840 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...THOMAS COUNTY
 
AT 735 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES EAST OF MULLEN OR 5 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF
THEDFORD MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF THEDFORD BY 746 PM CDT



 A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

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, Jun 4, 6:46 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
646 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    BASSETT                   NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   ROCK                           REPORTED BY FIRE CHIEF

0625 PM    12 NE THEDFORD            NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   THOMAS

SP

Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:58 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
657 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0645 PM    BRULE                     NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   KEITH                          FIRE DEPT REPORT

0645 PM    1 SE HALSEY               NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   BLAINE                         PUBLIC REPORT

SP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 min
Jun 4, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	66 min
Jun 4, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan	31 min
Jun 4, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	65 min
Jun 4, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	32 min
Jun 4, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	47 min
Jun 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 min
Jun 4, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	47 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.