Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2008, 1:55 PM MDT for Keith County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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
- May 6, 2008, 1:55 PM MDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2008, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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 6, 2:13 PM MDT | HAIL 0.75 | 10 Nnw Sutherland, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 061955 SVRLBF NEC101-111-062045- /O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0021.080506T1955Z-080506T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 255 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 345 PM CDT/245 PM MDT/ * AT 152 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL KEITH COUNTY...OR 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF OGALLALA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 19 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 310 PM CDT RURAL NORTHEASTERN KEITH COUNTY AT 210 PM MDT LAT...LON 4139 10108 4124 10095 4113 10143 4138 10148 TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 243DEG 16KT 4127 10133 $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KLBF 062019 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 317 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 NEC101-111-062045- /O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080506T2045Z/ LINCOLN NE-KEITH NE- 217 PM MDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM MDT/345 PM CDT/ FOR NORTHEASTERN KEITH AND NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTIES... AT 314 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...OR 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRYON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 31 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF PAXTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH AND MAY ALSO CONTAIN HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 330 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING/700 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING/ FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING/1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING/ FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4139 10108 4124 10095 4113 10143 4138 10148 TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 230DEG 27KT 4132 10118 $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 42 min |
| May 6, 2:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 47 min |
| May 6, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 51 min |
| May 6, 2:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 38 min |
| May 6, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 47 min |
| May 6, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 38 min |
| May 6, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 51 min |
| May 6, 3:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 46 min |
| May 6, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 6, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 37 min |
| May 6, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 46 min |
| May 6, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 24 min |
| May 6, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 50 min |
| May 6, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln | 44 min |
| May 6, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 50 min |
| May 6, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 30 min |
| May 6, 4:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 6, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 15 min |
| May 6, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Wheeler | 56 min |
| May 6, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 45 min |
| May 6, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 26 min |
| May 6, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 49 min |
| May 6, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 30 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.