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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2000, 8:50 AM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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 5, 2000, 8:50 AM CDT (13:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:50 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 5, 9:05 AM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Amelia, 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 2721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 051351 SVRLBF NEC089-051445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 850 AM CDT WED JUL 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 850 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER AMELIA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF O'NEILL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR CHAMBERS AROUND 905 AM CDT 8 MILES SOUTH OF INMAN AROUND 925 AM CDT 9 MILES SOUTH OF PAGE AROUND 935 AM CDT NEAR EWING AROUND 940 AM 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ GEB
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 8:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 65 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.