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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS North Platte, NE

July 1, 1999Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1999, 11:05 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1999, 11:05 PM MDT (05:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1999, 11:40 PM MDT
In force
35 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 05:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 341 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1999-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1999-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 1, 7:31 PM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 7:31 PM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 11:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha51 min
Jul 2, 12:21 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha49 min
Jul 2, 12:34 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRock36 min
Jul 2, 12:49 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt61 min
Jul 2, 2:04 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd66 min
Jul 2, 3:12 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.