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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2000, 4:18 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2000, 4:18 PM MDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Keith County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1879 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 262218 SVRLBF NEC101-262315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 418 PM MDT WED JUL 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 515 PM MDT * AT 418 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF BRULE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF OGALLALA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 5 MILES NORTH OF BRULE AROUND 430 PM MDT OVER OGALLALA AROUND 455 PM MDT 9 MILES SOUTH OF KEYSTONE AROUND 505 PM MDT 3 MILES SOUTH OF ROSCOE AROUND 510 PM MDT 13 MILES WEST OF PAXTON AROUND 515 PM MDT 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 4130 10202 4104 10204 4100 10130 4129 10133 $$ TLK
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 55 min |
| Jul 26, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.