Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1998, 5:13 PM CDT for Holt 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 11, 1998, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 11, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Chambers, NE | |
| Jun 11, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Chambers, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
849 WUUS1 KLBF 112212 RRA SVRLBF NEC089-112300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 513 PM CDT THU JUN 11 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 512 PM CDT... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF O NEILL OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF AMELIA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... AMELIA BY 525 PM CDT CHAMBERS BY 540 PM CDT O NEILL BY 550 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS RLB
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.