Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2016, 7:02 PM MDT for Arthur County, Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 23 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
- Mar 29, 2016, 7:02 PM MDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2016, 7:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Arthur County, NE, Keith County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
017
WUUS53 KLBF 300102
SVRLBF
NEC005-101-300145-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0004.160330T0102Z-160330T0145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
702 PM MDT TUE MAR 29 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
NORTH CENTRAL KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 745 PM MDT
* AT 702 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF
KEYSTONE...OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARTHUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHEASTERN ARTHUR AND NORTH CENTRAL KEITH COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4139 10171 4153 10157 4140 10143 4141 10141
4139 10138 4128 10152
TIME...MOT...LOC 0102Z 226DEG 18KT 4138 10158
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
CDC1 follow-up statement
418
WWUS53 KLBF 300125
SVSLBF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
725 PM MDT TUE MAR 29 2016
NEC005-101-300135-
/O.CAN.KLBF.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160330T0145Z/
ARTHUR NE-KEITH NE-
725 PM MDT TUE MAR 29 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN ARTHUR AND NORTH
CENTRAL KEITH COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 4139 10171 4153 10157 4140 10143 4141 10141
4139 10138 4128 10152
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 226DEG 18KT 4146 10147
$$
CDCThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden, Grant, Keith, Sheridan | 107 days |
| Mar 29, 6:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Hooker | 52 min |
| Mar 29, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 108 days |
| Mar 29, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Lincoln, McPherson | 108 days |
| Mar 29, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 27 min |
| Mar 29, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 7:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Keith | 40 min |
| Mar 29, 7:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Deuel | 39 min |
| Mar 29, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 9:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | McPherson | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 9:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Thomas | 47 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.