Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1997, 4:18 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min. 3 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 19, 1997, 4:18 PM MDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1997, 5:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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 19, 4:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Merriman, NE | |
| Jun 19, 5:05 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Merriman, NE | |
| Jun 19, 5:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Brownlee, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 192218 RRA SVRLBF NEC031-192320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 518 PM CDT (418 PM MDT) THU JUN 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY AT 516 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 44 MILES EAST OF CHADRON OR 21 MILES WEST OF MERRIMAN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. 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 CHROSSINGS. SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 7:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 7:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 35 min |
| Jun 18, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 66 min |
| Jun 18, 10:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 2:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 5:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 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.