Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 3:58 PM MDT for Cherry County, Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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 15, 1997, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherry County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 4:00 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Brownlee, NE | |
| Jun 15, 4:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Thedford, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1426 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 152201 RRA SVRLBF NEC031-171-152245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 458 PM CDT (358 PM MDT) SUN JUN 15 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY ...NORTHWESTERN THOMAS COUNTY AT 456 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF MULLEN OR 3 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF SENECA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... THEDFORD BY 520 PM CDT 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 U0NTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. JRS/FJS
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 Jun 15, 2:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 311 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 LATEST SURFACE CHART AT 19Z SHOWED COLD FRONT FROM WEST OF VTN TO SNY. KLNX 88D SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS OVER SHERIDAN AND CHERRY COUNTIES. SATELLITE SHOWING LOTS OF CU OVER PANHANDLE AND NORTHCENTRAL. BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FOR TONIGHT ALONG AND AHEAD OF COLD FRONT. MOST OF ACTIVITY SHOULD BE SOUTH AND EAST OF FA BY 06Z PER POSITION OF COLD FRONT ON MANUAL SURFACE PROG. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE IN BEHIND FRONT TONIGHT WITH SKIES BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. WITH COLDER TEMPERATURES AT 500MB THINK INSTABILITY SHOWERS POSSIBLE ON MONDAY IN THE AFTERNOON. ANOTHER SURFACE TROUGH PROGGED TO MOVE INTO PANHANDLE MONDAY EVENING AND MOVE INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY TUESDAY MORNING. SO WOULD INCLUDE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY EVENING IN THE PANHANDLE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE AGAIN ON TUESDAY WITH COLD FRONT APPROACHING NORTHWEST NEBRASKA. WINDS TONIGHT SHOULD BE OUT OF THE NORTH AT 5 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST ON MONDAY. MONDAY NIGHT WINDS SHOULD BE LIGHT FROM THE EAST BECOMING SOUTHWEST AHEAD OF THE TROUGH DURING THE NIGHT. ON TUESDAY.N..WINDS SHOULD BE WEST 5-10 BEHIND THE TROUGH WITH BBW-ONL STILL FROM SOUTHWEST BECOMING WEST. WILL GO WITH NGM GUIDANCE FOR TEMPERATURES. FS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:32 AM MDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-161200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1132 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES... ARTHUR BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHASE CHERRY CUSTER DEUEL FRONTIER GARDEN GARFIELD GRANT HAYES HOLT HOOKER KEITH KEYA PAHA LINCOLN LOGAN LOUP MCPHERSON PERKINS ROCK SHERIDAN THOMAS WHEELER ...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE FROM IMPERIAL TO AINSWORTH. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES RISE TO AROUND 80 THIS AFTERNOON THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME UNSTABLE. AVAILABLE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL BE FOCUSED ALONG THE COLD FRONT CAUSING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA INTO THIS EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. A FEW STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA BY MIDNIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. FS
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:34 AM MDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-161200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1132 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES... ARTHUR BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHASE CHERRY CUSTER DEUEL FRONTIER GARDEN GARFIELD GRANT HAYES HOLT HOOKER KEITH KEYA PAHA LINCOLN LOGAN LOUP MCPHERSON PERKINS ROCK SHERIDAN THOMAS WHEELER ...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE FROM IMPERIAL TO AINSWORTH. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES RISE TO AROUND 80 THIS AFTERNOON THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME UNSTABLE. AVAILABLE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL BE FOCUSED ALONG THE COLD FRONT CAUSING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA INTO THIS EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. A FEW STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA BY MIDNIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES IN$TO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. FS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 1:04 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:04 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.