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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS North Platte, NE

June 12, 2000Cherry County, Grant County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2000, 4:49 PM MDT for Cherry County, Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2000, 4:49 PM MDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2000, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cherry County, NE, Grant County, NE

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-573 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

326 
WUUS53 KLBF 122251
SVRLBF
NEC031-075-122345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
449 PM MDT MON JUN 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 449 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF HYANNIS...OR ABOUT 31
  MILES NORTH OF ARTHUR...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER FARM AND RANGELAND OF...
  NORTHERN GRANT AND SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTIES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT. 

$$

TLK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson58 min
Jun 12, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker50 min
Jun 12, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan57 min
Jun 12, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.