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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS North Platte, NE

May 30, 2016Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2016, 7:58 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 22 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 30, 2016, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2016, 8:20 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 30, 8:05 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	13 S Brady, NE	WIND GUSTS WERE ESTIMATED BETWEEN 50 AND 60 MPH. GIVEN STORM HISTORY...60 MPH WIND GUSTS SEEMED MOST LOGICAL.

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 30, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 1852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

197 
WUUS53 KLBF 310058
SVRLBF
NEC111-310130-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0101.160531T0058Z-160531T0130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
758 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 758 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF GOTHENBURG...OR 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF CURTIS...MOVING EAST AT 50
  MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...PUBLIC. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BRADY...JEFFREY CANYON STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA AND VROMAN. 

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 198 AND
208.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4070 10054 4105 10039 4105 10023 4070 10022
TIME...MOT...LOC 0058Z 272DEG 44KT 4084 10028 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

MARTIN

1 follow-up statement

745 
WWUS53 KLBF 310120
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
820 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

NEC111-310128-
/O.CAN.KLBF.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-160531T0130Z/
LINCOLN NE-
820 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND HAVE EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4070 10054 4105 10039 4105 10023 4070 10022
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 272DEG 44KT 4083 9994 

$$

MARTIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan, McPherson	26 min
May 30, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha	40 min
May 30, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	48 min
May 30, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	37 min
May 30, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan, McPherson	35 min
May 30, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	33 min
May 30, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	45 min
May 30, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry	45 min
May 30, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln, Logan	41 min
May 30, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	35 min
May 30, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Loup, Rock	79 min
May 30, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Custer	30 min
May 30, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Loup	57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.