Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 3:53 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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
- Jul 7, 1996, 3:53 PM MDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 4:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:01 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Merriman, NE | |
| Jul 7, 4:05 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Merriman, NE | |
| Jul 7, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Valentine, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 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 072155 TORLBF NEC031-072225- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 453 PM CDT (353 PM MDT) SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 525 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY AT 452 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 55 MILES EAST OF CHADRON OR 10 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF MERRIMAN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH. TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MERRIMAN BY 514 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ACT IMMEDIATELY...GO TO A BASEMENT ANvD 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. MICHELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 3:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 4:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 63 min |
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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.