Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 238, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 13, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 6:14 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Wellfleet, NE | |
| Aug 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | North Platte, 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 2406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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 132256 SVRLBF NEC111-140000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 553 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF MAXWELL. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRADY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR BRADY BY 6 PM CDT... AND OVER FARM AND RANDGELAND EAST OF HIGHWAY 83 IN NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY. 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 STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FOR SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4136 1N0074 4075 10077 4073 10026 4136 10031 $$ SLM
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 13, 1:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 1:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 122 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 2000 ...POPS TONIGHT AND TEMPERATURES TO BE THE CHALLENGE... 17Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM NEAR DDC TO CNK THEN NORTHEAST THRU TQE INTO NRN IA. SFC DWPTS HAVE INCREASING INTO THE UPPER 60S TO NEAR 70 IN SWRN NEBR. A DEEPER SFC LOW IS LOCATED IN ERN MT WITH A TROUGH EXTNDING SE INTO SE WY. A FEW RADAR RETURNS THIS MORNING IN THE BUB AREA HAVE SINCE DISSIPATED. TEMPS TODAY HELD BACK DUE TO AREAS OF CLOUD COVER AND E-SE WINDS. LATEST VSBL SAT SHOWS CIRCULATION ASSOCIATED WITH VORT MAX IN FAR ERN COLORADO. MODELS DIFFER ON HANDLING THE SHORTWAVE EJECTING OUT OF ERN COLORADO TODAY AND ITS EFFECT EWD INTO KS/SRN NEBR TONIGHT. PREFER THE ETA MODEL W/POSITION AND TIMING. THE NGM NOT VERIFYING DUE TO LARGE AREA OF QPFS IN SW NEBR/NW KS BY 18Z TODAY. TONIGHT...VORT MAX WILL SHIFT INTO SWRN NEBR/WRN KS THIS EVENING AND SHOULD GENERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE INDICATED BY ETA. WILL CARRY HIGHEST POPS IN THE SRN CWA AND LEAVE OUT POPS IN NW AND NRN TIER OF COUNTIES. SKIES WILL CLEAR IN SRN CWA AFTER MIDNIGHT WHILE THE NORTH REMAINS MOSTLY CLEAR. MONDAY...SUNNY AND ANOTHER HOT DAY SHAPING UP AS SFC TROUGH MOVES THROUGH WRN NEBR. SW WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO REACH THE MID TO UPPER 90S...95 TO 100 ERN PNHDLE AND SW. MONDAY NIGHT...A COLD FRONT WILL SLIP SOUTHWARD. WINDS WILL TURN NORTHEAST AS HIGH PRESSURE FROM THE NORTHERN PLAINS NOSES IN. FRONT WILL BE A DRY ONE WITH A LACK OF ANY UPPER SUPPORT. TUESDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY WITH EASTERLY WINDS BECOMING SE IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL FOLLOW THE SLIGHTLY COOLER FWC GUIDANCE WITH HIGHS OF MID 80S MOST AREAS. WILL LEAVE OUT MENTION OF POPS ATTM WITH ONLY THE AVN SHOWING A VORT MAX MOVING ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA AND QPFS ACROSS NRN NEBR. ETA MODEL SHOWS A VORT MAX ROTATING CLOCKWISE OUT OF WRN CLORADO AT 00Z WED AROUND THE UPPER RIDGE. THIS WILL GIVE ANOTHER CHC OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TUE NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY AND WILL WORD ACCORDINGLY IN THE EXTENDED. EXTENDED...CHC OF TSRA WED THRU FRIDAY AS DISTURBANCES RIPPLE THROUGH THE FLAT RIDGE. HIGH PRESSURE IN THE NRN PLAINS WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES FRIDAY AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY LIES ALONG THE NEBR/KS BORDER AREA. UPPER RIDGE FCST TO AMPLIFY NORTHWARD INTO THE NRN PLAINS FOR THE WEEKEND LIKELY ENDING PRECIP CHCS. .LBF...NONE ROBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 58 min |
| Aug 13, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 56 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.