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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS North Platte, NE

July 18, 1999McPherson County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1999, 8:20 PM CDT for McPherson 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 18, 1999, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1999, 8:55 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County McPherson County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 18, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	65 min
Jul 19, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	62 min
Jul 19, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	65 min
Jul 19, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	33 min
Jul 19, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1999 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.