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Tornado Warning 21, NWS North Platte, NE

July 7, 1996Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 9:35 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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 7, 1996, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1996, 10:10 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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, 9:40 PM CDT	Hail 2	Curtis, 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 15 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 080237
TORLBF
NEC111-080310-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
935 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 934 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 33 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 15 MILES
EAST OF WELLFLEET MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 23 MPH. THE TORNADO IS
EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY.
 
ACT QUICKLY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROXUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

MICHELS

The 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, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	63 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.