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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS North Platte, NE

May 17, 2000Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 3:22 PM CDT for Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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 17, 2000, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 17, 3:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Hayes Center, NE
May 17, 3:35 PM CDT	Hail 1	Wallace, NE
May 17, 3:45 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Wallace, NE	Extensive damage to homes and cars in Wallace.
May 17, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Wallace, NE	An F1 tornado touched down 1 mile northeast of Wallace, was on the ground for 5 minutes and lifted 3 miles north of Wallace. The tornado damaged or destroyed three center pivot irrigation systems and destroyed crops in its path.
May 17, 3:55 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Wallace, 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 17, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 46 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 853 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -378 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

142 
WUUS53 KLBF 172023
SVRLBF
NEC085-111-172100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
322 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
  SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 321 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYES CENTER...MOVING
  NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DICKENS AROUND 335 PM CDT
  NEAR WALLACE AROUND 340 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 800 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

JWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	60 min
May 17, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	63 min
May 17, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Perkins	39 min
May 17, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	55 min
May 17, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	62 min
May 17, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Perkins	27 min
May 17, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	43 min
May 17, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	52 min
May 17, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	48 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	47 min
May 17, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	56 min
May 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson	62 min
May 17, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 min
May 17, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	51 min
May 17, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	48 min
May 17, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Loup	61 min
May 17, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	41 min
May 17, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	66 min
May 17, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	59 min
May 17, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 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.