Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS North Platte, NE

Issued

Jun 15, 1997, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)

Expired

Jun 15, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS North Platte, NE

Area

Whole counties

County Custer County, NE

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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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WUUS1 KLBF 152315 RRA
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NEC041-160015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY
 
AT 613 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW OR 11 MILES WEST
NORTHWEST OF ANSELMO MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  ANSELMO                      BY 640 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.

MICHELS/FS

NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 3:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute 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.