Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2000, 5:17 PM CDT for Boyd County, Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min. 5 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
- Apr 26, 2000, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boyd County, NE, Holt County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 5:24 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Atkinson, NE | |
| Apr 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | O Neill, NE | |
| Apr 26, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | O Neill, NE | Tornado remained over farmland with no damage reported. |
| Apr 26, 5:48 PM CDT | Hail 1 | O Neill, NE | |
| Apr 26, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | O Neill, NE | Tornado touched down briefly and partially removed roof from house. |
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 1558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
224 WUUS53 KLBF 262219 SVRLBF NEC015-089-262315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 517 PM CDT WED APR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA EASTERN BOYD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 515 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPENCER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPENCER AROUND 545 PM CDT NEAR BRISTOW AROUND 550 PM CDT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LYNCH AROUND 600 PM CDT NEAR GROSS AROUND 605 PM CDT 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 WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 38 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.