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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS North Platte, NE

April 29, 2001Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 29, 7:00 PM CDTHail 0.88Wellfleet, 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 28 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 2001-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2001-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
252 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.

124 
WUUS53 KLBF 292346
SVRLBF
NEC111-300045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
647 PM CDT SUN APR 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 641 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WELLFLEET...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  CURTIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...

  6 MILES SOUTH OF MAXWELL AROUND 745 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.

LAT...LON 4074 10090 4072 10023 4111 10023 4109 10076
$$

TLK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant44 min
Apr 29, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes, Lincoln39 min
Apr 29, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln, Logan, McPherson41 min
Apr 29, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.