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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS North Platte, NE

July 8, 2000Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2000, 4:12 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. 3 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 8, 2000, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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
Jul 8, 4:40 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Clinton, NE
Jul 8, 4:57 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Rushville, NE
Jul 8, 5:20 PM MDT	Hail 1	Rushville, 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 526 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -427 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

448 
WUUS53 KLBF 082213
SVRLBF
NEC161-082315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
412 PM MDT SAT JUL 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 410 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLINTON...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUSHVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER FARM AND RANGELAND OF...
  CENTRAL SHERIDAN COUNTY.

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.


$$
KAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2000 Every 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.