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Tornado Warning 27, NWS North Platte, NE

July 25, 1996Keith County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 4:28 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 4 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 25, 1996, 4:28 PM MDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1996, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Keith County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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
Jul 25, 4:30 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Paxton, NE
Jul 25, 4:35 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65	Roscoe, NE
Jul 25, 4:35 PM MDT	Hail 1.25	Paxton, NE
Jul 25, 4:53 PM MDT	Hail 1	Paxton, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 252228
TORLBF
NEC101-251115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
528 AM CDT (428 AM MDT) THU JUL 25 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM MDT (615 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...EASTERN KEITH COUNTY
 
AT 426 AM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 21 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF OGALLALA OR 6 MILES NORTH
OF SARBEN MOVING SOUTH AT 17 MPH.

TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SARBEN                       BY 450 AM MDT
 
ACT QUICKLY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

JWS

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 25, 2:36 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 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

SP

The 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, 2:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	34 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, 4:33 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.