Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2000, 5:25 PM CDT for Custer County, Loup 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
- Jun 19, 2000, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Custer County, NE, Loup County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Anselmo, NE | |
| Jun 19, 5:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Almeria, NE | Tree damage. |
| Jun 19, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Broken Bow, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 192230 SVRLBF NEC041-115-192330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 525 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LOUP COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF GATES...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY WITH SEVERE WEATHER LIKELY. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... NEAR GATES AROUND 530 PM CDT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALMERIA AROUND 600 PM CDT NEAR TAYLOR AROUND 610 PM CDT NEAR BROKEN BOW AROUND 545 PM CDT NEAR SARGENT AROUND 625 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. $$ CDC
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 19, 5:23 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 5:23 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
523 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000
...WILL LEAVE WATCH BOX IN TACT FOR NOW...
AFTER CONSULTING WITH RADAR OPERATOR...DECIDED TO LEAVE WATCH BOX IN
TACT WITH PANHANDLE SHOWER ACTIVITY ENTERING AREA. POSSIBLE
BOUNDARY INTERACTION COULD OCCUR WITH BOUNDARIES LAID DOWN BY
EARLIER STORMS IN CWA EVIDENT ON RADAR. ALSO...SHOWERS IN
PANHANDLE ARE STARTING TO SHOW A LITTLE AMBITION AND ARE HOLDING
TOGETHER.
.LBF...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUE UNTIL 9 PM CDT
FOR ZONES 006>010-026>029-038 IN CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL...
ZONES 005-024-025-036-037-059-070-071 IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST
CENTRAL NEB.
SLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 35 min |
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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.