Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2003, 5:35 AM MDT for Cherry County, Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2003, 5:35 AM MDT (11:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 6:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cherry County, NE, Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:36 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 3921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
089 WUUS53 KLBF 051135 SVRLBF NEC031-161-051215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 534 AM MDT SAT JUL 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 615 AM MDT * AT 531 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF GORDON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVER GORDON AT 540 AM MDT 12 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN AROUND 615 AM MDT 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. 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. LAT...LON 4296 10259 4249 10257 4251 10151 4296 10148 $$ CLB
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 6:16 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 59 min |
| Jul 5, 6:51 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 4:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 5:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.