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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS North Platte, NE

July 3, 1998Blaine County, Loup County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1998, 1:15 AM CDT for Blaine County, Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 3, 1998, 1:15 AM CDT (06:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1998, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Blaine County, NE, Loup County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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
Jul 3, 1:20 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Brewster, 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
Jul 3, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 2041 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 148 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 17.1

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The text

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

175 
WUUS1 KLBF 030611 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC009-115-030700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
115 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  LOUP COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 112 AM CDT... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
  OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM 31 MILES SOUTH OF AINSWORTH OR 7
  MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWSTER EXTENDING SOUTHEAST TO 3 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF ALMERIA OR 46 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AINSWORTH. THE
  LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM 23 MILES SOUTH
  OF AINSWORTH TO 10 MILES NORTH OF TAYLOR BY 145 AM CDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

SPRINGER

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 Jul 2, 2:47 PM CDT, 10 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:47 PM CDT, 10 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
247 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1998

...FORECAST PROBLEM WILL BE POPS...

UPPER PATTERN HAS NOT CHANGED WITH 500 RIDGE OVER CENTRAL U.S. AND
TROUGH IN WESTERN U.S. 500 RIDGE STILL IN FIRM CONTROL WITH WEAK
SHORTWAVES MOVING THROUGH THE RIDGE. POPS ARE POSSIBLE THRU THE
PERIOD.

PROBLEMS THROUGH THE PERIOD WILL BE POPS. 700 AND 850 THTE RIDGES
REMAIN STATIONARY ACROSS CWA THRU 48 HOURS WITH LLJ THROUGH THE PERIOD.
LMVV FROM ETA AND NGM IN 850-700...700-500 AND 500-300 LAYERS HINT AT
MCS TOMORROW NIGHT IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND NEAR BLACK HILLS WHICH WOULD
MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN NEBRASKA WITH UPWARD VERTICAL VELOCITIES WITH LMRH
VALUES IN 40-60 PERCENT. LMVV NOT VERY ORGANIZED TONIGHT THOUGH. Q
VECTORS NOT VERY ORGANIZED EITHER IN THE 850-700...700-500 AND 500-300
LAYERS THROUGH THE PERIOD. 18Z SFC CHART SHOWED LOW OVER SE CO WITH
WARM FRONT OVER SW KS INTO OKC THROUGH LIT WITH DEW POINTS IN THE 60S
ACROSS CWA. UPSLOPE FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH 850 DEW
POINTS OF 8-16 DEGREES THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH ETA SHOWING PRETTY
POTENT 850 WARMFRONT WITH GOOD CONVERGENCE OVER HSI CWA AT 36 HOURS.
CAPE VALUES TONIGHT IN 1000-2000 J/KG RANGE WITH CIN IN -40 IN THE WEST
TO -80 IN THE EAST. CAPE TOMORROW NIGHT AT 00Z IN 700-2500 J/KG RANGE
WITH CIN VALUES -40 IN SOUTH TO -100 IN NORTHWEST. WITH THIS IN
MIND...FEEL THERE IS THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH THE PERIOD. WILL
GO HIGHEST POPS IN NE CWA WITH 50 TONIGHT AND LOWER POPS ELSEWHERE AND
GO HIGH POPS IN NORTH TOMORROW NIGHT FOR POSSIBLE MCS IN BLACK HILLS
AND EASTERN NEB. FEEL SOUTH COULD BE CAPPED AND WILL GO LOWEST POPS DUE
TO 700 TEMPS IN 13-16 DEGREE RANGE TOMORROW ACROSS CWA.

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

CCF
LBF BB 065/091 064/091 066 703231  ANW BB 066/088 066/085 067 705352
OGA BB 065/091 064/091 066 703231  ONL BB 06Z7/088 067/084 067 705352
IML BB 066/092 065/092 067 703231  BBW BB 066/090 066/088 067 704242
VTN BB 065/089 064/085 066 704242

MICHELS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 10:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NORTH PLATTE NE
1050 PM CDT WED JUL 02 1998

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

1004 PM    5N 1W VALENTINE           NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/01/98   CHERRY

1030 PM    VALENTINE                 NE   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   CHERRY

BUTLER

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 12:17 AM CDT, 58 minutes before

NEZ022-030550-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1221 AM CDT (1121 PM MDT) FRI JUL 3 1998

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR GARDEN
COUNTY...

AT 1220 AM CDT...NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED EAST OF GARDEN COUNTY THEREFORE THE
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. OCCASIONAL RAIN WILL CONTINUE WITH
LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE.

KB

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 12:35 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

NEZ004-030540-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1239 AM CDT (1139 PM MDT) FRI JUL 3 1998

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

AT 1239 AM CDT...NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD MOVED EAST AND WAS NO LONGER A THREAT
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

KB

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 1:14 AM CDT, 1 minute before

NEZ022-056-030625-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
118 AM CDT (1218 AM MDT) FRI JUL 3 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PART OF THE EASTERN
NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...

AT 115 AM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 717 ISSUED EARLIER
FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA HAS BEEN CLEARED FOR GARDEN AND DEUEL
COUNTIES. THE WATCH WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR THE REST OF
CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	66 min
Jul 2, 10:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garden	63 min
Jul 2, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	61 min
Jul 2, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden, Grant	59 min
Jul 3, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	61 min
Jul 3, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	50 min
Jul 3, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	66 min
Jul 3, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	46 min
Jul 3, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	65 min
Jul 3, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	32 min
Jul 3, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup, Rock	62 min
Jul 3, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	65 min
Jul 3, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Wheeler	51 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.