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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS North Platte, NE
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 5:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Brownlee, NE | Tree branches down. |
| Jul 3, 5:00 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Brownlee, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jul 3, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 3:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 68 min |
| Jul 3, 5:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 64 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.