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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2001, 5:12 PM CDT for Lincoln 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, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Maxwell, NE | |
| May 31, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Maxwell, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 25 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.
374 WUUS53 KLBF 312213 SVRLBF NEC111-312315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 512 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 509 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAXWELL...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES WEST OF MAXWELL AROUND 520 PM CDT 13 MILES WEST OF BRADY AROUND 530 PM CDT 5 MILES EAST OF WELLFLEET AROUND 615 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 4117 10126 4074 10123 4072 10024 4122 10025 $$ KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 41 min |
| May 31, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 56 min |
| May 31, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 65 min |
| May 31, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 26 min |
| May 31, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 53 min |
| May 31, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 63 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.