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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS North Platte, NE

June 5, 1996Perkins County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 11:55 PM MDT for Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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, 11:55 PM MDT (05:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 12:30 AM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Perkins County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 12:00 AM MDT	Hail 1	Paxton, NE
Jun 6, 12:30 AM MDT	Hail 1	Paxton, 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 060557
SVRLBF
NEC135-060630-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1255 AM CDT (1155 PM MDT) THU JUN 6 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM MDT (130 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHEASTERN PERKINS COUNTY
 
AT 1153 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 22 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF OGALLALA OR 10 MILES NORTH
NORTHEAST OF ELSIE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 46 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED TO PASS 5 MILES NORTH OF GRAINTON
BY 1210 AM MDT. ALTHOUGH THIS STORM WILL ONLY PASS THROUGH THE
EXTREME NORTHEAST CORNER OF PERKINS COUNTY...HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE
CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

 
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.

WOOD

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, 9:52 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 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, 9:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 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, 9:59 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 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, 10:03 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 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, 10:21 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 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, 10:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 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, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	62 min
Jun 5, 9:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	64 min
Jun 5, 9:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	35 min
Jun 5, 9:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	61 min
Jun 5, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	46 min
Jun 5, 10:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	32 min
Jun 5, 10:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	65 min
Jun 5, 10:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Perkins	32 min
Jun 5, 10:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	34 min
Jun 5, 10:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	47 min
Jun 5, 10:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden	64 min
Jun 5, 11:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	47 min
Jun 5, 11:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	65 min
Jun 5, 11:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	33 min
Jun 5, 11:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	63 min
Jun 6, 12:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	32 min
Jun 6, 12:37 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	63 min
Jun 6, 12:57 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	48 min
Jun 6, 1:13 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	62 min
Jun 6, 1:21 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	64 min
Jun 6, 1:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
Jun 6, 1:32 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	63 min
Jun 6, 1:36 AM MDT	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.