Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1997, 4:37 PM CDT for Blaine County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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
- Oct 8, 1997, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1997, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blaine County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Dunning, 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 082138 RRA SVRLBF NEC009-082225- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 437 PM CDT WED OCT 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 525 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...BLAINE COUNTY AT 435 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 37 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUNNING MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... BREWSTER BY 505 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DxO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. WERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 48 min |
| Oct 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 33 min |
| Oct 8, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 46 min |
| Oct 8, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 48 min |
| Oct 8, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 48 min |
| Oct 8, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 30 min |
| Oct 8, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.