Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 8:26 PM CDT for Brown County, Keya Paha 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
- Jun 9, 2000, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 9, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ainsworth, NE | |
| Jun 9, 8:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Springview, 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 100133 COR SVRLBF NEC017-103-100230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED STORM MOTION SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 826 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN KEYA PAHA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF LONG PINE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF AINSWORTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BURTON AROUND 835 PM CDT NEAR MILLS AROUND 840 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 FqOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ CDC
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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.