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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS North Platte, NE

August 13, 1997Garfield County, Loup County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1997, 5:26 PM CDT for Garfield County, Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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: Aug 13, 1997, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Garfield County, NE, Loup County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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
Aug 13, 5:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Burwell, NE
Aug 13, 6:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Taylor, NE	Thunderstorm winds and hail broke house windows.

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
Aug 13, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 95 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

610 
WUUS1 KLBF 132227 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC071-115-132330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
526 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...GARFIELD COUNTY
   ...LOUP COUNTY
 
AT 526 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURWELL MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  BURWELL                      BY 535 PM CDT



 A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE STORM IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  STAY
INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

FS/MP

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 Aug 13, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
230 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

EXTENT OF TSRA TONIGHT IS THE MAIN QUESTION FOR THE NEAR TERM...

18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS LEE TROF DEEPENING IN ERN PANHANDLE COUNTIES WITH
SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE INCREASING AS WELL AS PER ADAP SMC. LOW
DEVELOPING NEAR CDR AND BFF REPORTING TCU AT 19Z OB...AND MORE CU NEAR
LAKE MAC. ADAP ALSO HAS INSTABILITY AXIS ALONG TROF WITH RELATIVELY NO CAP.
WIND PROFILES ON ZAR VEERING WITH HEIGHT AND MEDICINE BOW PROFILER SHOWING
MID LEVEL SPEED MAX APPROACHING.

ETA CONTINUES TO BE A TAD FASTER WITH ITS SHORT WAVE MOVING ACROSS SD. NGM
IDENTIFIES A SECOND MAX FURTHER SW OF MAIN WAVE WHICH LOOKS BEST BASED ON
WV IMAGERY. ETA 12HR SFC FORECAST APPEARS TO LOOK BEST HOWEVER WITH LOW
DEVELOPING IN NWRN NEB BY 00Z THU. ISENTROPIC ANALYSIS INDICATES STRONG
PRESSURE ADVECTION ALONG/VCNTY OF SFC TROF BY LATE AFTERNOON...FROM NEAR
RUSHVILLE TO OGA TO IML. TSRA SHOULD DEVELOP SHORTLY IN THIS AREA. ONCE
DEVELOPED...ZAR AND KLNX 88D SHOWING GOOD VEERING WITH HEIGHT SO SUPERCELLS
POSSIBLE. BOUNDARY ALSO LOCATED FROM NEAR RAP TO N OF BBW IS LIKELY A WARM
FRONT WHERE BEST WARM AIR ADVECTION AHEAD OF SFC TROF IS OCCURING...LEADING
TO TSRA DEVELOPMENT IN THE NC. THIS TSRA SHOULD BE ONGOING AT THE TIME OF
ZONE ISSUANCE SO CAT WORDING NEEDED THERE. LOW LEVEL Q-N FORCING SHOULD
MOVE INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA OVERNIGHT.

MS SKIES SHOULD PREVAIL ON THURSDAY IN THE W WITH LINGERING MORNING CLOUDS
IN NERN CWA. ETA GRIDDED DATA HINTS AT SECOND WAVE MOVING THRU THURSDAY
LATE AFTERNOON AND WILL INCLUDE SMALL POPS FOR THE W.

GUIDANCE SHOWS THE NICE WAMRUP FOR THURSDAY INTO TH FRIDAY BEFORE HEIGHTS
DECREASE FOR THE WEEKEND. COLD FRONT SHOULD COME THRU LATE FRIDAY. GUIDANCE
MAXES SIMILAR FOR THE PERIOD AT LEAST FOR THE SW AND LOOK REASINABLE BASED
ON TODAYS HAPPENINGS. MINS ALSO SIMILAR. WINDS IN THE 10-20 MPH RANGE FROM
THE NW AFTER TROF PASSAGE FOR THURSDAY.

LBF UB 056/088 060/090 056 695-2
OGA UB 056/088 061/092 057 695-2
IML UB 058/088 060/092 057 694-1
VTN UB 057/088 056/087 056 695-2
ONL BB 059/082 062/083 060 69+23

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 13, 1:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
122 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

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

1255 PM    28 S LONG PINE            NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BROWN

0108 PM    32 SSW AINSWORTH          NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BROWN

0110 PM    3 N BREWSTER              NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BLAINE

0102 PM    6 N BREWSTER              NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BLAINE

SLM

Local storm report, Aug 13, 1:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
122 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

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

1255 PM    28 S LONG PINE            NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BROWN

0108 PM    32 SSW AINSWORTH          NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BROWN

0110 PM    3 N BREWSTER              NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BLAINE

0102 PM    6 N BREWSTER              NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BLAINE

SLM

Local storm report, Aug 13, 4:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
418 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

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

0140 PM    5  NE BREWSTER            NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BLAINE

0300 PM    11 NNW BREWSTER           NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BLAINE

SLM

Local storm report, Aug 13, 4:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
418 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

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

014R0 PM    5  NE BREWSTER            NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BLAINE

0300 PM    11 NNW BREWSTER           NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   BLAINE

SLM

Local storm report, Aug 13, 4:50 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
450 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

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

0405 PM    9 NW CALLAWAY             NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   CUSTER

0335 PM    5 E ARNOLD                NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   CUSTER

0300 PM    8 E GANDY                 NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   LOGAN

SLM

Local storm report, Aug 13, 4:52 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
450 PM CDT WED AUG 13 1997

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

0405 PM    9 NW CALLAWAY             NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   CUSTER

0335 PM    5 E ARNOLD                NE   0.88 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   CUSTER

0300 PM    8 E GANDY                 NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/13/97   LOGAN

SLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown	47 min
Aug 13, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	33 min
Aug 13, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Loup	30 min
Aug 13, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	34 min
Aug 13, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown	50 min
Aug 13, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Logan	51 min
Aug 13, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	61 min
Aug 13, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	48 min
Aug 13, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	60 min
Aug 13, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	32 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.