Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 20, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 9:27 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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, 9:49 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Moorefield, NE | |
| Jul 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 90 | Moorefield, NE | |
| Jul 7, 10:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Stockville, 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1066 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 12.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 080229 TORLBF NEC063-080330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 927 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...FRONTIER COUNTY AT 925 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 31 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOOREFIELD MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MOOREFIELD BY 946 PM CDT CURTIS BY 948 PM CDT MAYWOOD BY 950 PM CDT 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. MICHELS
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
Local storm report, Jul 7, 7:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
707 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM MERRITT RESERVOIR NE TORNADO
07/07/96 CHERRY 2 PUBLIC REPORTS OF ONE
TORNADO NEAR NORTH SHORE
OF MERRITT RESERVOIR.
JRSLocal storm report, Jul 7, 7:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
723 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0715 PM 3 ENE ELSMERE NE 0.88 INCH HAIL
07/07/96 BROWN
JRSLocal storm report, Jul 7, 9:24 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
923 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM TRYON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/07/96 MCPHERSON
SLMLocal storm report, Jul 7, 9:26 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
925 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0733 PM 5 W STAPLETON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/07/96 LOGAN
SLMLocal storm report, Jul 7, 9:27 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
927 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SENECA NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/07/96 THOMAS
SLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | McPherson | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, McPherson | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 62 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.