Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 3:21 PM CDT for Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 5 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 11, 1996, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 4:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Keya Paha County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Springview, NE | |
| Jun 11, 3:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Springview, NE | |
| Jun 11, 3:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Springview, NE | |
| Jun 11, 3:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Springview, NE | |
| Jun 11, 4:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Burton, 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 112022 SVRLBF NEC103-112125- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 321 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 425 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...WESTERN KEYA PAHA COUNTY AT 319 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES NORTH OF AINSWORTH OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGVIEW MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER SPRINGVIEW THROUGH 400 PM CDT OTHERWISE...EXPECT IT TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY. 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.
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
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-121200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1050 AM CDT (950 AM MDT) TUE JUN 11 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES... ARTHUR BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHASE CHERRY CUSTER DEUEL FRONTIER GARDEN GARFIELD GRANT HAYES HOLT HOOKER KEITH KEYA PAHA LINCOLN LOGAN LOUP MCPHERSON PERKINS ROCK SHERIDAN THOMAS WHEELER ...STOMR SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED IN WESTERN NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEBRASKA WITH ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS IS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MERRIMAN TO IMPERIAL...AND AFTER 600 PM MDT (700 PM CDT). < LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AS WELL...BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT LIKELY IN THAT AREA. SPRINGER
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-121200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1050 AM CDT (950 AM MDT) TUE JUN 11 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES... ARTHUR BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHASE CHERRY CUSTER DEUEL FRONTIER GARDEN GARFIELD GRANT HAYES HOLT HOOKER KEITH KEYA PAHA LINCOLN LOGAN LOUP MCPHERSON PERKINS ROCK SHERIDAN THOMAS WHEELER ...STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED IN WESTERN NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEBRASKA WITH ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS IS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MERRIMAN TO IMPERIAL...AND AFTER 600 PM MDT (700 PM CDT). < LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AS WELL...BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT LIKELY IN THAT AREA. SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Grant | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every 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.