Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 12:41 PM MST for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 12:41 PM MST (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 1:45 PM MST
- In force
- 64 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 19:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 1:03 PM MST | Hail 0.75 | Antioch, 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, 7.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 071943 SVRLBF NEC161-072045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1241 PM MST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 145 PM MST * AT 1238 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF LAKESIDE...OR ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF ALLIANCE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 8 MILES EAST OF RUSHVILLE AROUND 140 PM MST 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. DIME SIZED HAIL FELL FROM THIS STORM AND COVERED THE GROUND 3 MILES EAST OF LAKESIDE AT 1238 MST. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MST TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. & WERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 11:52 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 1:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 4:01 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 59 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.