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Tornado Warning 28, NWS North Platte, NE

July 25, 1996Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 5:40 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 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 22:44 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, 5:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Sutherland, 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, 10.7 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: 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 252241
TORLBF
NEC111-252345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
540 PM CDT THU JUL 25 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 539 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 8 MILES
SOUTH OF SUTHERLAND MOVING SOUTH AT 17 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 STUxRDY
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 25, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	61 min
Jul 25, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	63 min
Jul 25, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	60 min
Jul 25, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
Jul 25, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	61 min
Jul 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	34 min
Jul 25, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	61 min
Jul 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 min
Jul 25, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	65 min
Jul 25, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	61 min
Jul 25, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	63 min
Jul 25, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	61 min
Jul 25, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	64 min
Jul 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	63 min
Jul 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	61 min
Jul 25, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 min
Jul 25, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	63 min
Jul 25, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	62 min
Jul 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	65 min
Jul 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	64 min
Jul 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	47 min
Jul 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	62 min
Jul 25, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Perkins	62 min
Jul 25, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	42 min
Jul 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Deuel	62 min
Jul 25, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	34 min
Jul 25, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	63 min
Jul 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	47 min
Jul 25, 6:41 PM CDT	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.