Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 32, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 7:05 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 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, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hayes County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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, 7:20 PM CDT | 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 461 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 260006 TORLBF NEC085-260105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 705 PM CDT THU JUL 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 805 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...EASTERN HAYES COUNTY AT 702 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 28 MILES EAST OF IMPERIAL OR 4 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF HAYES CENTER MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 26 MPH. TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HAYES CENTER BY 711 PM CDT 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. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY A|ND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 45 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.