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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS North Platte, NE

May 8, 1996Keith County, Perkins County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 11:38 PM MDT for Keith County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 67 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: May 8, 1996, 11:38 PM MDT (05:38 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 12:45 AM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Keith County, NE, Perkins County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 8, 11:53 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Venango, NE
May 9, 12:10 AM MDT	Hail 1	Brandon, 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 902 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 090541
SVRLBF
NEC101-135-090645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1238 AM CDT (1138 PM MDT) THU MAY 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM CDT (1245 AM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN KEITH COUNTY...WESTERN PERKINS COUNTY
 
AT 1135 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES WEST OF GRANT...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
OGALLALA.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD
APPROACH DOWNTOWN OGALLALA AND GRANT BY 1230 AM MDT.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
WERT/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, May 8, 10:47 PM MDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1148 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996

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

0615 PM    ANTIOCH                   NE   WIND DAMAGE
05/08/96   SHERIDAN                       PUBLIC REPORT OF LARGE
                                          TREE LIMBS DOWN IN TOWN

0725 PM    14 NW ARTHUR              NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96   ARTHUR

0810 PM    8 N ARTHUR                NE   1.50 INCH HAIL
05/08/96   ARTHUR

0845 PM    11 W TRYON                NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96   MCPHERSON

0949 PM    8 WSW STAPLETON           NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96   LOGAN

0950 PM    4 SE RINGGOLD             NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/08/96   MCPHERSON

1000 PM    19 NE NORTH PLATTE        NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/08/96   LINCOLN

1050 PM    8 S ARNOLD                NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/08/96   CUSTER

WERT

Local storm report, May 8, 10:59 PM MDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1159 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996

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

114,5 PM    3 SE CALLAWAY             NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/96   CUSTER

WERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant	42 min
May 8, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	47 min
May 8, 7:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	63 min
May 8, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan, McPherson	61 min
May 8, 9:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	65 min
May 8, 10:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	61 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.