Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 11:20 PM MDT for Cherry County, Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min. 5 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 10, 2000, 11:20 PM MDT (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2000, 12:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherry County, NE, Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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 10, 11:27 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rushville, NE | Power pole broken |
| May 10, 11:30 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Rushville, NE | |
| May 11, 12:00 AM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Merriman, NE | |
| May 11, 12:00 AM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton, NE | Garage blown over |
| May 11, 12:00 AM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rushville, NE | Garage wall blown out and dog kennel destroyed |
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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
052 WUUS53 KLBF 110521 SVRLBF NEC031-161-110615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1120 PM MDT WED MAY 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1215 AM MDT * AT 1118 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF GORDON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR ELI AROUND 1210 AM MDT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF NENZEL AROUND 1220 AM MDT 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 12:38 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 67 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.