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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS North Platte, NE

August 13, 2000Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2000, 6:29 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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
Aug 13, 2000, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Frontier County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 13, 6:32 PM CDTHail 1Maywood, NE
Aug 13, 6:46 PM CDTHail 1Maywood, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 237 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

358 
WUUS53 KLBF 132329
SVRLBF
NEC063-140030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
629 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 628 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MAYWOOD...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF
  CURTIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER MAYWOOD AROUND 635 PM CDT
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CURTIS AROUND 710 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.

LAT...LON 4069 10073 4041 10073 4039 10040 4068 10041

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SLM

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln67 min
Aug 13, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier, Lincoln58 min
Aug 13, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln67 min
Aug 13, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan56 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.