Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS North Platte, NE

Issued

Jun 15, 1997, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)

Expired

Jun 15, 1997, 6:40 PM CDT

In force

33 min

Issued by

NWS North Platte, NE

Area

Whole counties

County Blaine County, NE

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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TTAA00 KLBF 152309 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC009-152340-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
607 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 640 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...WESTERN BLAINE COUNTY
 
AT 603 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW OR 3 MILES WEST
NORTHWEST OF DUNNING MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN OPEN
COUNTRY AND RURAL AREAS SOUTHEAST OF DUNNING.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LSEEK 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.

MICHELS/STASSER

NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 3:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.