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Tornado Warning 9, NWS North Platte, NE

June 18, 1996Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1996, 3:54 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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 18, 1996, 3:54 PM MDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1996, 4:25 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 18, 4:15 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Ellsworth, NE
Jun 18, 4:20 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Gordon, 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -379 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 182156
TORLBF
NEC161-182225-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
454 PM CDT (354 PM MDT) TUE JUN 18 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 425 PM MDT (525 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 352 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
36 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF CHADRON OR 7 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF
RUSHVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 21 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO
REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY.
 
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.

AT 450 PM CDT...SHERIFFS REPORTED TORNADO ON THE GROUND 10 MILES
SOUTH OF ChLINTON.
&

WOOD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 3:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	61 min
Jun 18, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	49 min
Jun 18, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	45 min
Jun 18, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	46 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.