Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 1:52 AM MDT for Arthur County, Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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 3, 1998, 1:52 AM MDT (07:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 2:40 AM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Arthur County, NE, Garden County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 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 3, 2:00 AM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Arthur, 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 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 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 030752 RRA SVRLBF NEC005-069-030840- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 252 AM CDT (152 AM MDT) WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ARTHUR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA EASTERN GARDEN COUNTY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE * UNTIL 240 AM MDT (340 AM CDT) * AT 151 AM MDT... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 29 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA OR 14 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF ARTHUR MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * DAMAGING HAIL AND/OR DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... ARTHUR BY 205 AM MDT BUCKTAIL d BY 220 AM MDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! TW/MP
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 3, 1:45 AM MDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:45 AM MDT, 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 245 AM CDT WED JUN 3 1998 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE TEMPERATURES... MODELS SHOWING DIFFERENCES WITH 8H TEMPERATURES WITH DEGREE OF CAA TO BE THE BIG QUESTION. ETA GENERALLY HANDLES THE COLD AIR BETTER AND WILL FOLLOW EVEN THOUGH NGM MODEL APPEARS TO HAVE INITIALIZED BETTER. EITHER WAY IT WILL BE MUCH COLDER AND WET AS UPSLOPE FLOW CONTINUES THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. KLNX 88D SHOWING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY INCREASING AS 5H WAVE MOVES THROUGH. CELLS MOST NUMEROUS FROM LN SRN GARDEN COUNTY NORTHEAST INTO SRN BROWN COUNTY. AREA OF DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES TO DEVELOP SOUTH. 06Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWED COLD FRONT FM NR AKRON EAST ACROSS NRN KS. FRONT TO MOVE TOWARD THE SOUTH TODAY AS SFC HIGH BUILDS SOUTHEAST. TIMING OF 5H SHORTWAVES PROVIDES A BRIEF PERIOD IN THE LATE AFTN FOR THREAT FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DIMINISH. THEN OVERNIGHT STRONGER WAVE LIFTS NORTHEAST WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED INTO SWRN AND NCNTRL SECTIONS. TEMPERATURES TODAY WITH COLDER MODEL TO STRUGGLE TO GET INTO THE 50S. INCREASING SATURATION OF THE AIRMASS WITH UPSLOPE FLOW TO LIMIT HEATING AND WILL UNDERCUT FWC GUIDANCES. RECORD MIN AND MAX TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE THIS CYCLE. ACTIVE WEATHER LIMITING FULL DISCUSSION WITH NO WORKZONES TO BE SENT. ADJUSTMENTS TO GOING FORECAST FOR ADDITION OF THUNDERSTORMS AND COOLER TEMPERATURES. PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECAST IS CONTAINED WITHIN THE PRODUCT OMAZFPNE. LBF CT 053/045 047/036 056 346 VTN CC 048/035 042/031 050 536 IML CT 055/045 049/038 058 346 ONL CC 045/035 042/031 050 633 WOOD
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 12:38 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 1:02 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 48 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.