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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS North Platte, NE

June 4, 1996Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 9:04 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min. 4 reports 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, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1996, 10:05 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 4, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	North Platte, NE
Jun 4, 9:50 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Brady, NE
Jun 4, 9:50 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Maxwell, NE
Jun 4, 10:12 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Brady, 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 15 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 050204
SVRLBF
NEC111-050305-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1005 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 901 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 24 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 24 MILES NORTH OF
MAXWELL MOVING SOUTH AT 26 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN
OPEN COUNTRY AND WILL BE 15 MILES NORTH OF MAXWELL BY 930 PM CDT
GOLFBALL AND LARGER HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

 A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

BOWMAN

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, 8:35 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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

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

0810 PM    25 NE NORTH PLATTE        NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   LINCOLN

FS/SP

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:46 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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

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

0838 PM    25E 10N NORTH PLATTE      NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   LINCOLN

FS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:50 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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

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

0830 PM    9S 2W ARNOLD              NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   CUSTER

FS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:53 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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

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

0845 PM    4N STAPLETON              NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   LOGAN

FS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:57 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION FOR TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
853 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996

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

0850 PM    4N STAPLETON              NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   LOGAN

FS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:01 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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

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

0900 PM    5W STAPLETON              NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/96   LOGAN

FS

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, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	63 min
Jun 4, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan	31 min
Jun 4, 8:20 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, 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.