Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 15, 1996, 10:03 PM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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
- May 15, 1996, 10:03 PM MDT (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1996, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 10:08 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Hyannis, 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 3202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 160404 TORLBF NEC075-160430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1103 PM CDT (1003 PM MDT) WED MAY 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT (1030 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EASTERN GRANT COUNTY AT 1000 PM MDT (1100 CDT)...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF HYANNIS OR 45 MILES NORTH OF OGALLALA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 34 min |
| May 15, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 17 min |
| May 15, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 48 min |
| May 15, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson, Thomas | 55 min |
| May 15, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 64 min |
| May 15, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 47 min |
| May 15, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson, Thomas | 64 min |
| May 15, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 59 min |
| May 15, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 59 min |
| May 15, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 41 min |
| May 15, 7:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 64 min |
| May 15, 7:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson, Thomas | 3 hr |
| May 15, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 59 min |
| May 15, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 31 min |
| May 15, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 59 min |
| May 15, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 65 min |
| May 15, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant, Hooker, McPherson | 60 min |
| May 15, 9:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 39 min |
| May 15, 9:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 65 min |
| May 15, 9:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 64 min |
| May 15, 10:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 62 min |
| May 15, 10:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 66 min |
| May 15, 10:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 59 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.