Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 12, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 1996, 4:08 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 5, 1996, 4:08 PM MDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1996, 4:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Keith County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Brule, 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, 10.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 859 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 052209 TORLBF NEC101-052240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 508 PM CDT (408 PM MDT) FRI JUL 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 440 PM MDT (540 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...WESTERN KEITH COUNTY AT 406 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 17 MILES WEST OF OGALLALA OR 7 MILES WEST OF BRULE MOVING EAST AT 24 MPH. TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BRULE BY 425 PM MDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ACT IMMEDIATELY...GO TO A BASEMENT AND GET UNDER THE STAIRS...A WORKBENCH OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. & MUTCHLER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jul 5, 10:11 AM MDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-061200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1102 AM CDT (1002 AM MDT) FRI JUL 05 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 SPOTTER GROUPS IN WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD BE ALERT AND READY FOR ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING... THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS EAST OF A LINE FROM RUSHVILLE TO NORTH PLATTE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS FORECAST TO ENTER WESTERN NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON FOLLOWED BY A COLD FRONT THIS EVENING. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE DURING THE DAY WITH MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND AMPLE SURFACE MOISTURE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND MOnVE EAST INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA. OTHER FACTORS SUCH AS WIND PROFILES INDICATE THAT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. SLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel, Keith | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 61 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.