Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 5:01 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min. 4 reports 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 22, 2000, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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 22, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Broken Bow, NE | |
| Jul 22, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Broken Bow, NE | |
| Jul 22, 5:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Oconto, NE | |
| Jul 22, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Oconto, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
232 WUUS53 KLBF 222202 SVRLBF NEC041-222245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 501 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUSTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 9 MILES WEST OF WEISSERT AROUND 505 PM CDT OVER BROKEN BOW AROUND 510 PM CDT 11 MILES WEST OF WESTERVILLE AROUND 515 PM CDT 4 MILES WEST OF BERWYN AROUND 520 PM CDT 8 MILES WEST OF ANSLEY AROUND 530 PM CDT 11 MILES WEST OF MASON CITY AROUND 540 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. LAT...LON 4161 9924 4159 10010 4108 10013 4107 9925 $$ TLK
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 55 min |
| Jul 21, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 28 min |
| Jul 21, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 37 min |
| Jul 21, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 61 min |
| Jul 22, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 53 min |
| Jul 22, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 67 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.