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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS North Platte, NE

July 22, 1997Loup County, Rock County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1997, 8:02 PM CDT for Loup County, Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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: Jul 22, 1997, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1997, 9:05 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Loup County, NE, Rock County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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
Jul 22, 8:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Rose, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 22, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2367 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 230103 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC115-149-230205-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
802 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 905 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHERN LOUP COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN ROCK COUNTY
 
AT 800 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 29 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF AINSWORTH OR 6 MILES WEST
SOUTHWEST OF ROSE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  ROSE                         BY 810 PM CDT
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE INTO A STRONG
BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

BOWMAN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
300 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1997

PERSISTEANCE YIELDS THE SAME FORECAST PROBLEMS OF TEMPS/TSRA CHANCES...

WARM FRONT LOCATED FROM SERN NEBR INTO NWRN SD HAS MOVED LITTLE SINCE THIS
MORNING. WATER VAPOR AND OTHER SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOW GOOD MOISTURE FEED
FROM THE SWRN UNITED STATES. GOES SOUNDER INFO HAS CAPE APPROACHING
3500 J/KG IN THE ONL AREA WITH PW VALUES AROUND 1.75 INCHES OR SO.
LI INDICES APPROACHING -10 IN THIS AREA AS WELL. CAP STRENGTH QUITE HIGH
ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AND SW...BUT LESS IN THE NE.

NGM/ETA SIMILAR IN BRINGING PIECE OF SHORT WAVE ENERGY ACROSS THE DAKOTAS
DURING THE EVENING. GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE LOCATED IN SWRN SD BY
EVENING SO WOULD EXPECTED STORMS TO FIRE IN THE NWRN PANHANDLE/SWRN SD/ERN
WY VCTY THEN TRACK EWD ACROSS SRN SD. CORFIDI/850-300MB THICKNESS WOULD
THEN HAVE TSRA CLUSTER MOVE INTO THE NERN PART OF THE CWA AS PER PREVIOUS
940. ISOLD TSRA MAY MOVE INTO THE ERN PANHANDLE COUNTIES FROM FURTHER W...
BUT AS HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST...WITH FIRM CAP IN PLACE ACROSS THE SW...
THESE SHOULD DISSIPATE AS THEY WORK EWD. WOULD THEREFORE LIKE THE MENTION
OF ISOLD IN ZONES NE004-NE005-NE022 (OR FROM OSHKOSH TO VTN. HIGHER POPS
ARE DUE FOR ANW/ONL AREAS (30%) BUT DUE TO INCREASING 700MB TEMPS WILL LEAVE
OUT POPS IN THE SW TONIGHT. BEST BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE FLUX CONV ALSO
LOCATED IN NERN NEBR TONIGHT. IN FACT...THERE MAY BE TWO ROUNDS OF CONVECTION
THERE...THE LATTER OF WHICH MAY BE DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND WILL
ADJUST POPS TO MATCH THIS THINKING.

FOR THURSDAY...MUCH OF THE SAME WITH 700 MB TEMPS WARMING FURTHER. MAINLY
ONLY THE NRN AND WRN FRINGES WOULD BE AT BEST RISK FOR TSRA SO WILL
CONTINUE KEEPING SW DRY AS OPPOSED TO 98O.

FOR TEMPS...GUIDANCE HAS BEEN TOO COOL AS OF LATE FOR MAXES. AVN TOO COOL
ON MINS WITH FWC IN THE BALL PARK.

CCF
LBF UB 067/097 067/095 064 69-00
OGA UB 068/098 067/095 065 69-00
IML UB 067/098 067/096 065 69000
VTN BB 066/092 067/093 062 69223
ONL BB 068/091 069/092 067 69333

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
626 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0614 PM    7 NW BASSETT              NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   ROCK

0615 PM    3 N BASSETT               NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   ROCK

SLM

Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
626 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

061r4 PM    7 NW BASSETT              NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   ROCK

0615 PM    3 N BASSETT               NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   ROCK

SLM

Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
635 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0613 PM    36 N HYANNIS              NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   CHERRY                         KNOCKED OUT
                                          WINDSHIELD...8 INCH TREE
                                          BRANCHES DOWN

0630 PM    2 W BASSETT               NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   ROCK

SLM

Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
635 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0613 PM    36 N HYANNIS              NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   CHERRY                         KNOCKED OUT
                                          WINDSHIELD...8 INCH TREE
                                          BRANCHES DOWN

0630 PM    2 W BASSETT               NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   ROCK

SLM

Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
649 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    10 ENE MERRIMAN           NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   CHERRY

SLM

Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
649 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    10 ENE MERRIMAN           NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/22/97   CHERRY

SLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	60 min
Jul 22, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	60 min
Jul 22, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Grant, Hooker	63 min
Jul 22, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	61 min
Jul 22, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	64 min
Jul 22, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	63 min
Jul 22, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	63 min
Jul 22, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, McPherson	61 min
Jul 22, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	62 min
Jul 22, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	67 min
Jul 23, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 min
Jul 23, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.