Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2000, 5:42 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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 12, 2000, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Brownlee, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
113 WUUS53 KLBF 122343 SVRLBF NEC031-130045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 642 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT (645 PM MDT) * AT 540 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF MULLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROWNLEE AROUND 730 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ TLK
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 57 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.