Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 26, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 2:51 PM MDT for Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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 25, 1996, 2:51 PM MDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 3:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hooker County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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 25, 3:00 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Mullen, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 252055 TORLBF NEC091-252125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 351 PM CDT (251 PM MDT) THU JUL 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM MDT (425 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN HOOKER COUNTY AT 250 PM MDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULLEN MOVING SOUTH AT 18 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. 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 FURbNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. S. MUTCHLER
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
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 10:07 AM MDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-261200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1105 AM CDT (1005 AM MDT) THU JUL 25 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES... ARTHUR BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHASE CHERRY CUSTER DEUEL FRONTIER GARDEN GARFIELD GRANT HAYES HOLT HOOKER KEITH KEYA PAHA LINCOLN LOGAN LOUP MCPHERSON PERKINS ROCK SHERIDAN THOMAS WHEELER ...ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS IS POSSIBLE LATE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA BY EARLY EVENING. THEN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS AFTER 600 PM CDT AND WEST OF A LINE FROM RUSHVILLE TO IMPERIAL. < HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE WEAKENING...RESULTING IN MORE INSTABILITY.6 AS A RESULT...THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG WITH ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE THIS MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON. SPRINGER
Local storm report, Jul 25, 2:36 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
335 PM CDT THU JUL 25 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0325 PM 11 NE NORTH PLATTE NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/25/96 LINCOLN
SPThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 1:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 3:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 4:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 4:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 4:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 5:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 34 min |
| Jul 25, 5:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 34 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.