Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 4:02 PM CDT for McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County McPherson County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Tryon, NE | |
| May 17, 4:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Tryon, 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
172 WUUS53 KLBF 172103 SVRLBF NEC117-172145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 402 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 402 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF RINGGOLD...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRYON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRYON AROUND 410 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 IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 38 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, 4:08 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.