Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 4:54 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 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 29, 2000, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hershey, NE | |
| Jun 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Brady, NE | |
| Jun 29, 5:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Brady, 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 29, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 292157 SVRLBF NEC111-292300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 454 PM CDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 452 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE DAMAGING WINDS AND/OR LARGE HAIL WILL BE... NEAR MAXWELL AROUND 500 PM CDT NEAR SUTHERLAND AROUND 510 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. THE PRIMARY THREAT POSED BY THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. QUICKLY SEEK SAFETY IN A BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER T!O THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. NNNN JWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 1:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 25 min |
| Jun 29, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | McPherson | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes | 63 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.