Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2000, 2:08 AM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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
- Jun 4, 2000, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:30 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Stockville, 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 724 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 040709 SVRLBF NEC063-040800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 208 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 300 AM CDT * AT 205 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF STOCKVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF CURTIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUSTIS AROUND 215 AM CDT 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. JWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.