Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 12:06 AM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 54 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 28, 2000, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 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), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 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 28, 12:30 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Merna, 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 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, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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.
718 WUUS53 KLBF 280507 SVRLBF NEC041-280600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1206 AM CDT FRI JUL 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1206 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANSELMO...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARNOLD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES SOUTH OF ANSELMO AROUND 1220 AM CDT OVER MERNA AROUND 1230 AM CDT 11 MILES SOUTH OF GATES AROUND 1240 AM CDT OVER WEISSERT AROUND 1255 AM CDT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WESTERVILLE AROUND 100 AM 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. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4168 10019 4148 10021 4139 9933 4168 9938 $$ SLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jul 27, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 54 min |
| Jul 27, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 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.