Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS North Platte, NE

June 21, 1998Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 4:19 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 21, 1998, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1998, 5:05 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Garden County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 21, 4:30 PM MDT	Hail 1	Oshkosh, 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 155 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1733 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

968 
WUUS1 KLBF 212217 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC069-212305-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
519 PM CDT (419 PM MDT) SUN JUN 21 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GARDEN COUNTY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 505 PM MDT (605 PM CDT)

* AT 418 PM MDT... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 27 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA OR 1 MILE NORTH
  NORTHWEST OF LEWELLEN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

RLB

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 21, 2:19 PM MDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:19 PM MDT, 2 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
319 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1998

FORECAST PROBLEMS ARE POPS AND TEMPERATURES

THE 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW PRESSURE IN NORTHEAST COLORADO WITH
HIGH PRESSURE OVER MONTANA AND NORTHERN NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE
VISIBLE ON SATELLITE OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO. DEWPOINTS WERE IN THE 50S
ACROSS THE FA.

THE MODELS ARE SIMILAR WITH THE BASIC FEATURES. SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL
CONTINUE OVER A WARMFRONT IN NORTHEAST COLORADO AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. A SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA
TONIGHT AND COMBINE WITH Q-G FORCING...UPWARD VERTICAL VELOCITIES AND
ISENTROPIC LIFT AT I310. THE THETA-E RIDGE REMAINS IN PLACE NEAR THE
FRONT AND OVER THE FA. CAPE IS LIMITED TONIGHT AT AROUND 500 J/KG BUT
INCREASES TO 1000-1500 J/KG BY MONDAY NIGHT. SOUTHEAST WINDS AT 5 TO 10
MPH FOR TONIGHT INCREASING TO 10 TO 20 MPH MONDAY. THIS SCENARIO WILL
CONTINUE UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING WHEN THE SURFACE TROUGH SHIFTS EAST OUT
OF THE PANHANDLE.

FAN/NGM GUIDANCE IN AGREEMENT FOR TEMPERATURES TONIGHT AND MONDAY
THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT BUT FAN IS WARMER FOR TUESDAYS HIGHS AND WILL
FOLLOW DUE TO BREEZY WEST WINDS BEHIND THE TROUGH AND SOUTH WIND 10 TO
20 AHEAD OF IT.

PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN PRODUCT OMAZFPNE...

CCF
LBF BB 058/081 060/088 062 425
OGA BB 057/082 059/089 063 425
IML BB 057/084 060/089 064 425
VTN BB 057/081 061/084 062 325
ONL BB 059/083 062/083 063 225
ANW BB 058/082 061/083 062 225
BBW BB 059/082 061/087 063 325

FS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 3:52 PM MDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
452 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1998

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

0420 PM    LISCO                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   GARDEN

SLM

Local storm report, Jun 21, 3:52 PM MDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
452 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1998

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

0420 PM    LISCO                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   GARDEN

SLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 2:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	65 min
Jun 21, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	66 min
Jun 21, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	65 min
Jun 21, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	66 min
Jun 21, 5:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Garden	3 hr
Jun 21, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	63 min
Jun 21, 5:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Keith	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1998 Every 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.