Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 4:25 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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 11, 2000, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2000, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 11, 4:35 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Valentine, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 112225 SVRLBF NEC031-112300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 525 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOOD LAKE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF AINSWORTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR WOOD LAKE AROUND 540 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. $$ CDC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 11:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 11:59 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 12:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 31 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.