Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2000, 6:29 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min. 3 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
- May 7, 2000, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2000, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:50 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 58 M | Valentine Arpt, NE | |
| May 7, 7:20 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Brownlee, NE | |
| May 7, 7:25 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Valentine, NE | Semi truck blown over |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1647 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 080029 SVRLBF NEC031-080130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 729 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT(730 PM MDT) * AT 626 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NENZEL...OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES SOUTH OF CROOKSTON AROUND 745 PM CDT NEAR VALENTINE AROUND 815 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING(800 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 52 min |
| May 7, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 59 min |
| May 7, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 64 min |
| May 7, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 7, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 62 min |
| May 7, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 27 min |
| May 7, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha, Rock | 23 min |
| May 7, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 65 min |
| May 7, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Perkins | 61 min |
| May 7, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Loup | 56 min |
| May 7, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 54 min |
| May 7, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln | 61 min |
| May 7, 9:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 62 min |
| May 7, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 45 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.