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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS North Platte, NE

June 7, 2004Blaine County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT for Blaine County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Blaine County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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
Jun 7, 7:15 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	3 Wsw Brewster, NE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

598 
WUUS53 KLBF 080000
SVRLBF
NEC009-080045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
659 PM CDT MON JUN 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 657 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF BREWSTER...AND MOVING EAST AT 10
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN BLAINE COUNTY...ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 7...  
  THROUGH 745 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4208 10004 4177 10000 4181 9970 4207 9970

$$

JWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Blaine	45 min
Jun 7, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	43 min
Jun 7, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	47 min
Jun 7, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	44 min
Jun 7, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	53 min
Jun 7, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	28 min
Jun 7, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	62 min
Jun 8, 2:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	24 min
Jun 8, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.