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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS North Platte, NE

July 9, 2000Keith County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2000, 6:54 PM MDT for Keith County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 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 9, 2000, 6:54 PM MDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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 9, 7:03 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Paxton, NE
Jul 9, 7:08 PM MDT	Hail 2.5	Sutherland, NE
Jul 9, 7:17 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Sutherland, NE	60 mph winds.
Jul 9, 7:37 PM MDT	Hail 2.5	Hershey, NE
Jul 9, 7:54 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	North Platte, NE
Jul 9, 8:10 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 2069 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLBF 100057
SVRLBF
NEC101-111-100200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
754 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
  EASTERN KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT(800 PM MDT)

* AT 655 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SARBEN...OR ABOUT 22 MILES EAST OF        
  OGALLALA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM      
  WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF SUTHERLAND...OR ABOUT 22             
  MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...ALSO MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR SUTHERLAND AROUND 815 PM CDT
  NEAR HERSHEY AROUND 835 PM CDT
  5 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE AROUND 855 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORrM...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.

$$
JWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	46 min
Jul 9, 7:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Thomas	42 min
Jul 9, 7:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	68 min
Jul 10, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	61 min
Jul 10, 4:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	57 min
Jul 10, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	60 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.