Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 8:48 PM MDT for Hooker County, McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 min. 2 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 27, 2000, 8:48 PM MDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2000, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hooker County, NE, McPherson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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 27, 9:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mullen, NE | Large tree limbs down. |
| Jul 27, 9:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tryon, NE | Large tree limbs down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 3838 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 12.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
699 WUUS53 KLBF 280249 SVRLBF NEC091-117-280345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 848 PM MDT THU JUL 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCPHERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA HOOKER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 945 PM MDT(1045 PM CDT) * AT 845 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 26 MILES WEST OF MULLEN TO 31 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRYON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... OVER TRYON AND MULLEN AROUND 1025 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING(1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4206 10141 4144 10135 4143 10083 4206 10088 $$ DJB
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jul 27, 9:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 54 min |
| Jul 27, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 11:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 54 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.