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Tornado Warning 24, NWS North Platte, NE

July 22, 1996Arthur County, Grant County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 1996, 5:16 AM MDT for Arthur County, Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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 22, 1996, 5:16 AM MDT (11:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1996, 6:05 AM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Arthur County, NE, Grant County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:15 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 22, 5:45 AM MDT	Hail 0.88	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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 2927 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 221119
TORLBF
NEC005-075-221205-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
616 AM CDT (516 AM MDT) MON JUL 22 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 AM MDT (705 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHEASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY
 
AT 515 AM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULLEN OR 12 MILES NORTH
NORTHWEST OF BUCKTAIL MOVING EAST AT 23 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED
TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ACT IMMEDIATELY...GO TO A
BA8SEMENT 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.


JWS

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	65 min
Jul 21, 7:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	30 min
Jul 21, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	63 min
Jul 22, 5:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	48 min
Jul 22, 5:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	60 min
Jul 22, 6:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	62 min
Jul 22, 6:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	64 min
Jul 22, 6:55 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	50 min
Jul 22, 7:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	65 min
Jul 22, 7:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	60 min
Jul 22, 8:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	58 min
Jul 22, 8:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	60 min
Jul 22, 9:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	33 min
Jul 22, 9:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	64 min
Jul 22, 9:38 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Perkins	32 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.