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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS North Platte, NE

July 3, 2000Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 4:46 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 59 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
Jul 3, 2000, 4:46 PM MDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2000, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
59 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 22:49 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
Jul 3, 5:00 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EBrownlee, NETree branches down.
Jul 3, 5:00 PM MDTHail 1.5Brownlee, 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, 10.8 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 2000-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 307 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-278 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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.

753 
WUUS53 KLBF 032247
SVRLBF
NEC031-032345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
546 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT(545 PM MDT)

* AT 543 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF BROWNLEE...OR ABOUT 31 MILES
  SOUTH OF VALENTINE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  6 MILES EAST OF MERRITT RESERVOIR DAM AROUND 615 PM CDT
  13 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE AROUND 630 PM CDT
  4 MILES WEST OF CROOKSTON AROUND 635 PM CDT
  5 MILES EAST OF KILGORE AROUND 540 PM MDT

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

NNNN
$$
SLM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 2:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier, Lincoln54 min
Jul 3, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln61 min
Jul 3, 3:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson58 min
Jul 3, 3:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker63 min
Jul 3, 3:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFThomas43 min
Jul 3, 3:52 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningLBFLincoln6 hr
Jul 3, 4:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry54 min
Jul 3, 5:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier68 min
Jul 3, 5:56 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier64 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.