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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS North Platte, NE

June 5, 1996Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 11:48 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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 5, 1996, 11:48 PM CDT (04:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 12:35 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Hayes County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 12:30 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Hayes Center, NE
Jun 6, 12:40 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	Hayes Center, 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 2118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 060449
SVRLBF
NEC085-060535-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1148 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1235 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHEASTERN HAYES COUNTY
 
AT 1146 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF IMPERIAL OR 18 MILES NORTH
NORTHWEST OF HAYES CENTER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 43 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
  HAYES CENTER                 BY 1212 AM CDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALL8Y 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

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 5, 10:52 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1051 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

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

1035 PM    OGALLALA                  NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   KEITH

SLB

Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:56 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1055 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

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

1035 PM    25 NW OGALLALA            NE   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   KEITH

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:59 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1058 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

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

1050 PM    OGALLALA                  NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   KEITH

SLB

Local storm report, Jun 5, 11:03 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1101 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

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

1100 PM    5N OGALLALA               NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   KEITH

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, Jun 5, 11:21 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1120 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

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

1110 PM    ANTIOCH                   NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   SHERIDAN

MUTCHLER

Local storm report, Jun 5, 11:37 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1135 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

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

1135 PM    WALLACE                   NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   LINCOLN

MUTCHLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	62 min
Jun 5, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	64 min
Jun 5, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	35 min
Jun 5, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	61 min
Jun 5, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	46 min
Jun 5, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	32 min
Jun 5, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	65 min
Jun 5, 11:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Perkins	32 min
Jun 5, 11:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	34 min
Jun 5, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden	64 min
Jun 6, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	47 min
Jun 6, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	65 min
Jun 6, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	33 min
Jun 6, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	35 min
Jun 6, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	63 min
Jun 6, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	32 min
Jun 6, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	63 min
Jun 6, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	48 min
Jun 6, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	62 min
Jun 6, 2:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	64 min
Jun 6, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
Jun 6, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	63 min
Jun 6, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.