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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS North Platte, NE

July 21, 2000Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2000, 4:25 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 2000, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Holt County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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 21, 4:48 PM CDTHail 0.75Stuart, 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 715 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
715 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

146 
WUUS53 KLBF 212125
SVRLBF
NEC089-212200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
425 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 424 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF STUART...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST
  OF BASSETT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STUART AROUND 430 PM CDT

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL WHICH MAY CAUSE 
INJURY AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY 
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 4275 9924 4249 9923 4249 9908 4266 9909

$$
CDC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier59 min
Jul 21, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry55 min
Jul 21, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRock31 min
Jul 21, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt30 min
Jul 21, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry52 min
Jul 21, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield34 min
Jul 21, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden33 min
Jul 21, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield31 min
Jul 21, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant54 min

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.