Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 25, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 1996, 9:38 AM MDT for Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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, 9:38 AM MDT (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1996, 10:10 AM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perkins County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:00 AM MDT | Hail 1 | Grant, 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1041 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 221541 TORLBF NEC135-221610- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1038 AM CDT (938 AM MDT) MON JUL 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 AM MDT (1110 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...WESTERN PERKINS COUNTY AT 937 AM MDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OGALLALA OR 10 MILES NORTH OF BRANDON MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 28 MPH. TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BRANDON BY 1000 AM MDT GRANT BY 1005 AM MDT 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. M. MUTCHLER
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, 5:16 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 49 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 |
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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.