Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 8, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 11:31 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 5, 1996, 11:31 PM CDT (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1996, 12:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wallace, 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 15 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 060432 TORLBF NEC111-060505- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1131 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1205 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 1129 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALLACE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 42 MPH. TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DICKENS BY 1141 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. SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 11:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 65 min |
| Jun 6, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 64 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.