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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS North Platte, NE

May 17, 2000Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 12:12 AM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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 17, 2000, 12:12 AM MDT (06:12 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2000, 1:15 AM MDT
In force
63 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 06:15 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
May 17, 1:00 AM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ERushville, 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-05-17Temperature 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

655 
WUUS53 KLBF 170616
SVRLBF
NEC161-170715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1212 AM MDT WED MAY 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 115 AM MDT

* AT 1210 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF RUSHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR GORDON AROUND 1230 AM MDT

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN 
SHERIDAN COUNTY.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL WHICH MAY CAUSE 
INJURY AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.  MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY 
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$
KAR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 11:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan60 min
May 17, 2:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase, Perkins39 min
May 17, 2:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes, Lincoln38 min
May 17, 2:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier55 min
May 17, 2:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith, Perkins62 min
May 17, 2:48 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln, Perkins27 min
May 17, 3:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson43 min
May 17, 3:08 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeith52 min
May 17, 3:12 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln48 min
May 17, 3:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier47 min
May 17, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster56 min
May 17, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker, McPherson62 min
May 17, 3:59 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln61 min
May 17, 4:09 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCuster51 min
May 17, 4:57 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeith, Lincoln48 min
May 17, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster, Loup61 min
May 17, 5:04 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLogan41 min
May 17, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster66 min
May 17, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan59 min
May 17, 5:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln64 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.