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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2001, 3:27 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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
- May 31, 2001, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2001, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:40 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Valentine, NE | |
| May 31, 4:15 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Wood Lake, NE | Vehicle damage and numerous windows broken in homes. |
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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 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 312127 SVRLBF NEC031-312230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 427 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 322 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF VALENTINE...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR VALENTINE AROUND 435 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 4296 10069 4263 10060 4261 10022 4298 10022 $$ KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 1:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 41 min |
| May 31, 1:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 56 min |
| May 31, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 65 min |
| May 31, 3:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 26 min |
| May 31, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 53 min |
| May 31, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 63 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.