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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS North Platte, NE
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 4:48 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Stuart, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 59 min |
| Jul 21, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 55 min |
| Jul 21, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 30 min |
| Jul 21, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 52 min |
| Jul 21, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 54 min |
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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.