Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2000, 11:15 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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 16, 2000, 11:15 PM MDT (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 12:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 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 16, 11:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Hay Spgs, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2099 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
839 WUUS53 KLBF 170512 SVRLBF NEC161-170615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1115 PM MDT TUE MAY 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1215 AM MDT * AT 1108 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAY SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTH OF HAY SPRINGS AROUND 1125 PM MDT 8 MILES SOUTH OF RUSHVILLE AROUND 1145 PM MDT 11 MILES SOUTH OF CLINTON AROUND MIDNIGHT MDT 14 MILES SOUTH OF GORDON AROUND 1210 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. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. RADAR INDICATED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA. $$ CDC/KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 12:12 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 63 min |
| May 17, 2:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 39 min |
| May 17, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 38 min |
| May 17, 2:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 55 min |
| May 17, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 62 min |
| May 17, 2:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 27 min |
| May 17, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 43 min |
| May 17, 3:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 52 min |
| May 17, 3:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 48 min |
| May 17, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 47 min |
| May 17, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 56 min |
| May 17, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 62 min |
| May 17, 3:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 61 min |
| May 17, 4:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 51 min |
| May 17, 4:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 48 min |
| May 17, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Loup | 61 min |
| May 17, 5:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 41 min |
| May 17, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 66 min |
| May 17, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 59 min |
| May 17, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
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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.