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Tornado Warning 6, NWS North Platte, NE

June 5, 1996Keith County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 9:45 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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
Jun 5, 1996, 9:45 PM MDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 10:20 PM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Keith County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 9:50 PM MDTHail 1Ogallala, NE
Jun 5, 10:00 PM MDTHail 1.75Ogallala, NE
Jun 5, 10:15 PM MDTHail 1Ogallala, NE
Jun 5, 10:30 PM MDTHail 1.75Ogallala, 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, 3.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2118 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 060347
TORLBF
NEC101-060420-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1045 PM CDT (945 PM MDT) WED JUN 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 PM MDT (1120 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...KEITH COUNTY
 
AT 944 PM MDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
KINGSLEY DAM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 42 MPH.

TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BRULE                        BY 955 PM MDT
  OGALLALA                     BY 956 PM MDT
  ROSCOE                       BY 1004 PM MDT
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden62 min
Jun 5, 9:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith64 min
Jun 5, 9:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden, Sheridan61 min
Jun 5, 9:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFPerkins46 min
Jun 5, 10:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith32 min
Jun 5, 10:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln65 min
Jun 5, 10:23 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFPerkins32 min
Jun 5, 10:31 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln34 min
Jun 5, 10:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes47 min
Jun 5, 10:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Garden64 min
Jun 5, 11:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier47 min
Jun 5, 11:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith65 min
Jun 5, 11:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes33 min
Jun 5, 11:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFPerkins35 min
Jun 5, 11:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln63 min
Jun 6, 12:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFPerkins32 min
Jun 6, 12:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith63 min
Jun 6, 12:57 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln48 min
Jun 6, 1:13 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier62 min
Jun 6, 1:21 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFPerkins64 min
Jun 6, 1:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln62 min
Jun 6, 1:32 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase63 min
Jun 6, 1:36 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes64 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.