Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 6:56 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | North Platte Arpt, NE | Several vehicles at Lee Bird Field incurred hail damage |
| May 17, 7:06 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Maxwell, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 15 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.
585 WUUS53 KLBF 172357 SVRLBF NEC111-180100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 656 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAXWELL AROUND 715 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL WHICH MAY CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SEVERE 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. WERT
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, 4:02 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 |
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.