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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS North Platte, NE

June 29, 2000Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 11:32 AM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min. 2 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 29, 2000, 11:32 AM MDT (17:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2000, 12:30 PM MDT
In force
58 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 17:34 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 12:20 PM MDTHail 2.75Merriman, NE
Jun 29, 12:40 PM MDTHail 2Merriman, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLBF 291733
SVRLBF
NEC031-291830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1132 AM MDT THU JUN 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1230 PM MDT

* AT 1128 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GORDON...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER FARM AND RANGELAND OF...
  SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY.

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.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

REPORT SEVERE W5EATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$
M. MUTCHLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 12:05 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry25 min
Jun 29, 12:27 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry33 min
Jun 29, 12:58 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry32 min
Jun 29, 1:26 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCherry, Hooker34 min
Jun 29, 1:56 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFHooker64 min
Jun 29, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant60 min
Jun 29, 2:28 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFMcPherson62 min
Jun 29, 2:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur40 min
Jun 29, 2:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFThomas64 min
Jun 29, 2:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan66 min
Jun 29, 3:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln54 min
Jun 29, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson34 min
Jun 29, 3:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln58 min
Jun 29, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln66 min
Jun 29, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier59 min
Jun 29, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln60 min
Jun 29, 5:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier, Hayes63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.