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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS North Platte, NE

July 25, 1999Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1999, 7:20 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 min. 3 reports 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 25, 1999, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1999, 8:25 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Hayes County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 25, 7:28 PM CDTHail 1Hamlet, NE
Jul 25, 7:35 PM CDTHail 0.75Hamlet, NE
Jul 25, 8:00 PM CDTHail 2.75Hamlet, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 322 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1999-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2053 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1999-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2053 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.8

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln62 min
Jul 25, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster50 min
Jul 25, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.