Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 7, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 10:23 PM MDT for Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 5, 1996, 10:23 PM MDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 10:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perkins County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 10:23 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Paxton, NE | |
| Jun 5, 10:30 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Paxton, 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 060425 TORLBF NEC135-060455- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1123 PM CDT (1023 PM MDT) WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1055 PM MDT (1155 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...EASTERN PERKINS COUNTY AT 1021 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OGALLALA OR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADRID MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. TORNADO IS POSSIBLE...AND MAY BE NEAR... ELSIE BY 1029 PM MDT GRAINTON BY 1037 PM MDT WOO8D
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 9:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 9:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 9:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 9:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 10:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 10:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 10:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 10:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 10:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 11:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 11:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 11:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 11:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 11:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 12:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 12:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 12:57 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 1:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 1:21 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 1:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 1:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 1:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 64 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.