Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2000, 9:14 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 18, 2000, 9:14 PM MDT (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2000, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garden County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 9:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Lisco, NE | |
| Apr 18, 10:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Oshkosh, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 190314 SVRLBF NEC069-190415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 914 PM MDT TUE APR 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL GARDEN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1015 PM MDT * AT 912 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF LISCO...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF OSHKOSH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES SOUTH OF CRESCENT LAKE NWR AROUND 935 PM MDT THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL WHICH MAY CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SEVERE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 9:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden, Grant | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 10:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 67 min |
| Apr 18, 11:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 55 min |
| Apr 18, 11:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 66 min |
| Apr 18, 11:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 66 min |
| Apr 18, 11:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Lincoln, McPherson | 35 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.