Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2001, 8:02 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 6, 2001, 8:02 PM MDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2001, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:35 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Brownlee, NE | |
| Sep 6, 8:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1716 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2094 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
665 WUUS53 KLBF 070203 SVRLBF NEC031-070300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 802 PM MDT THU SEP 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 900 PM MDT(1000 PM CDT)... * AT 800 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROWNLEE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MULLEN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AND COULD ALSO BECOME SEVERE. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROWNLEE AROUND 1000 PM CDT... THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING(1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4211 10150 4247 10143 4244 10066 4213 10058 $$ DP/CDC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 65 min |
| Sep 6, 8:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 67 min |
| Sep 6, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 46 min |
| Sep 6, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 65 min |
| Sep 6, 8:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 54 min |
| Sep 6, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 9:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 59 min |
| Sep 6, 9:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 24 min |
| Sep 6, 9:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 55 min |
| Sep 6, 10:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd | 57 min |
| Sep 6, 10:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 48 min |
| Sep 6, 10:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 67 min |
| Sep 6, 10:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 67 min |
| Sep 6, 11:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 11:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd | 66 min |
| Sep 6, 11:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 42 min |
| Sep 6, 11:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 33 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.