Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT for Hayes County, Lincoln County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min. 4 reports 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
- Apr 6, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hayes Center, NE | |
| Apr 6, 7:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wallace, NE | Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down several large trees. |
| Apr 6, 7:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wallace, NE | |
| Apr 6, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Madrid, 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 59 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 062348 SVRLBF NEC029-085-111-135-070030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 647 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA SOUTHEASTERN PERKINS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA EASTERN CHASE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT(630 PM MDT) * AT 543 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF WAUNETA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF IMPERIAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAINTON AROUND 600 PM MDT OVER WALLACE AROUND 705 PM CDT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF DICKENS AROUND 710 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. $$ TLK/DP LAT...LON 4036 10158 4035 10099 4098 10085 4085 10149
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 26 min |
| Apr 6, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 43 min |
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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.