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Tornado Warning 31, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 5:32 PM MDT for Chase County, Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. 2 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, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 6:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chase County, NE, Hayes County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 5:45 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Elsie, NE | |
| Jul 25, 6:20 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Hayes Center, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 252335 TORLBF NEC029-085-260035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 632 PM CDT (532 PM MDT) THU JUL 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 PM MDT (735 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...EASTERN CHASE COUNTY ...WESTERN HAYES COUNTY AT 531 PM MDT (631 PM CDT)...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF IMPERIAL OR 19 MILES NORTH OF WAUNETA MOVING SOUTH AT 17 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...IMMEDIATELY GO TO A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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
Local storm report, Jul 25, 2:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 56 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, 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, 4:28 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, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.