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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS North Platte, NE

June 30, 1997Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1997, 4:16 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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: Jun 30, 1997, 4:16 PM MDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1997, 5:05 PM MDT
In force: 49 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 30, 4:51 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Wood Lake, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 30, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 302216 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC031-302305-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
516 PM CDT (416 PM MDT) MON JUN 30 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY
 
AT 514 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF VALENTINE OR 9 MILES
SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF ARABIA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
  ARABIA                       BY 535 PM CDT
  WOOD LAKE                    BY 540 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 HSHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
KMB

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 30, 2:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
310 PM CDT MON JUN 30 1997

...FORECAST PROBLEM TO BE POPS AND TEMPS...

A SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING OVER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE WILL INCREASE LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE OVER NORTHERN NEBRASKA WITH EXISTING OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES THE FOCUS FOR WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS
EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL FORECAST
AREAS. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY ALREADY SHOWING CLOUD DEVELOPMENT
NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM MERRIMAN TO MULLEN TO BROKEN BOW. WEAK
REFLECTIVITY RETURNS SHOWING UP WITHIN CLOUD DEVELOPMENT AREA ON KLNX
88D.

CAP REMAINS IN PLACE WITH 16Z MODIFIED UPPER AIR SOUNDING AT LBF SHOWING
CAP STRENGTH OF 2.8 DEG C...LI OF -9 AND CAPE 3484 J/KG. MODELS ARE
SIMILIAR WITH UPPER LEVEL FEATURES DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS WITH STRONG
SURFACE LOW MOVING EAST WITH TEMPERATURES RETURNING TO NEAR NORMAL
RANGES ON TUESDAY AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE. HOWEVER 500 MB CUT OFF LOW
APPEARS TO BE STILL SPINNING OVER THE PACIFIC COAST AND MAY RESULT IN
SLOWER MOVEMENT AND TIMING OF SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING
THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS ON TUESDAY.

BELIEVE CAP WILL LIMIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOP MAINLY TO THE NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH OF A LINE FROM BBW TO MERRIMAN. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM MAY
DEVELOP OVER THE REST OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. 200-300 MB JET STREAM
AXIS SHOWS JET REORIENTATING WITH JET STREAK TO EXTEND EAST ACROSS
NEBRASKA THIS EVENING WITH NORTH CENTRAL WITHIN LEFT FRONT EXIT REGION
FOR ADDITIONAL LIFT COMBINED WITH WEAK 500 MB SHORTWAVE TO MOVE
THROUGH.

ON TUESDAY DRYLINE WILL MOVE EAST DURING THE MORNING THEN COLD FRONTAL
PASSAGE IN THE EVENING. WARM MID LEVEL WILL RESIDE OVER FORECAST AREA
WITH GREATEST POPS FOR NORTH CENTRAL WITH LOW LEVEL JET TO SHIFT TO THE
SOUTHWEST WITH MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND DYNAMICS PROVIDES BEST LIFT FOR
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHEAST.

TEMPERATURES GUIDANCES CLOSE BUT PREFER THE WARMER FWC MOS WITH WARMER
TEMPS PROGGED. PRESENT FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK FOR TONIGHT.

LBF BB 065/090 056/085 122   ONL BB 062/091 060/082 324
IML BB 063/092 052/080 122   BBW BB 065/092 060/082 220
VTN BB 064/090 052/085 220

WOOD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 10:50 AM MDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1150 AM CDT MON JUN 30 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 AM    20 S SENECA               NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/97   THOMAS

DAUGHERTY

Local storm report, Jun 30, 10:51 AM MDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1150 AM CDT MON JUN 30 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 AM    20 S SENECA               NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/97   THOMAS

DAUGHERTY

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	50 min
Jun 30, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	65 min
Jun 30, 5:05 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Brown	35 min
Jun 30, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	64 min
Jun 30, 5:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Brown	33 min

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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.