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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS North Platte, NE

May 26, 2000Frontier County, Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT for Frontier County, Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 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 26, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Hayes Center, 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -268 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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.

923 
WUUS53 KLBF 262231
SVRLBF
NEC063-085-262330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
530 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
  SOUTHWESTERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 529 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF PALISADE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  SOUTH OF HAYES CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER FARM AND RANGELAND OF...
  SOUTHEASTERN HAYES AND SOUTHWESTERN FRONTIER COUNTIES.

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.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL WHICH MAY CAUSE 
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.
$$

JRS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	66 min
May 26, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	38 min
May 26, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	67 min
May 26, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	67 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.