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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS North Platte, NE
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hayes Center, NE | |
| Jul 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | North Platte, NE | |
| Jul 5, 8:43 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Wallace, NE | |
| Jul 5, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | North Platte, NE | |
| Jul 5, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sutherland, NE | |
| Jul 5, 9:27 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | North 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 12:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Holt | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Boyd, Keya Paha | 5 hr |
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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.