Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 8:20 PM CDT for Custer 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
- Jun 4, 1996, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Arnold, 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 050124 SVRLBF NEC041-050225- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 820 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 925 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY AT 820 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 29 MILES WEST OF BROKEN BOW...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF ARNOLD...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND O\CCASIONALLY 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.
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, 7:45 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
745 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0658 PM 11 E THEDFORD NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/04/96 THOMAS HAIL FELL FROM 643
THROUGH 658 PM
0730 PM 12 N STAPLETON NE 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/04/96 LOGAN
SPLocal storm report, Jun 4, 7:51 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
751 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730* PM 11 WNW OF NORTH PLATTE NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/96 LINCOLN
SPLocal storm report, Jun 4, 8:04 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
804 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0800d PM 5 E GRAND NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/96 LOGAN
SPLocal storm report, Jun 4, 8:06 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
806 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM 8 E STAPLETON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/96 LOGAN
0805 PM 9 N STAPLETON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/96 LOGAN TWO SEPARATE REPORTS FROM
OPPOSITE fSIDES OF THE
STORM'S CORE.
SPLocal storm report, Jun 4, 8:12 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
811 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810Z PM 1 W NORTH PLATTE NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/96 LINCOLN
SPLocal storm report, Jun 4, 8:13 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
813 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM 14 S THEDFORD NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/96 THOMAS
SPThe 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, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 31 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
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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.