Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT for Blaine County, Brown County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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 19, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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, 8:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Johnstown, NE | Hail damage to house siding. |
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 |
| Jun 19, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
278 WUUS53 KLBF 200146 SVRLBF NEC009-017-200215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 845 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHERN BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 842 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELSMERE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWSTER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER FARM AND RANGELAND OF... SOUTHERN BROWN AND NORTHERN BLAINE COUNTIES. 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 100 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. $$ CDC/KR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 25 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.