Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS North Platte, NE

May 8, 2003Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 6:08 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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
May 8, 2003, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2003-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2003-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 314 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
586 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLBF 082308
SVRLBF
NEC111-090000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
605 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 601 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALLACE TO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  BRADY...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  OVER BRADY AROUND 615 PM CDT
  OVER MAXWELL AROUND 620 PM CDT
  OVER NORTH PLATTE AROUND 630 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.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT 
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY. 

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4072 10123 4073 10025 4135 10026 4136 10123

$$

BUTTLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase57 min
May 8, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes44 min
May 8, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.