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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2000, 8:14 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 29, 2000, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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 01:14 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 29, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | North Platte, 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, 1.2 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
- 1075 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 300115 SVRLBF NEC111-300200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 814 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 809 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STAPLETON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 8 MILES NORTH OF MAXWELL AROUND 825 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN $$ SLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 40 min |
| May 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, McPherson | 45 min |
| May 29, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 25 min |
| May 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer | 45 min |
| May 29, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 63 min |
| May 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Loup | 60 min |
| May 29, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 38 min |
| May 29, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 54 min |
| May 29, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 27 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.