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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS North Platte, NE

July 5, 2000Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2000, 8:23 PM CDT for Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 67 min. 6 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 5, 2000, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 5, 8:30 PM CDTHail 0.88Hayes Center, NE
Jul 5, 8:30 PM CDTHail 1.75North Platte, NE
Jul 5, 8:43 PM CDTHail 2.5Wallace, NE
Jul 5, 8:45 PM CDTHail 0.75North Platte, NE
Jul 5, 9:10 PM CDTHail 1.75Sutherland, NE
Jul 5, 9:27 PM CDTHail 0.88North Platte, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 5, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2126 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
8.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

952 
WUUS53 KLBF 060124
SVRLBF
NEC085-111-060230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
823 PM CDT WED JUL 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
  SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYES CENTER...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALLACE AROUND 845 PM CDT
  NEAR DICKENS AROUND 850 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.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln65 min
Jul 5, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier56 min
Jul 6, 12:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFHolt6 hr
Jul 6, 1:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFBoyd, Keya Paha5 hr

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.