Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 40, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 1996, 7:37 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 10, 1996, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1996, 8:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 7:54 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Eustis, NE | |
| Aug 10, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Stockville, 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 110038 TORLBF NEC063-110125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 737 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...EASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY AT 735 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 20 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON OR 7 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF EUSTIS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 19 MPH. TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... EUSTIS BY 757 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ACT IMMEDIATELY...GO TO A BASEMENT AND GET UNDER THE STRAIRS...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. FS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 30 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.