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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS North Platte, NE

May 24, 2016Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2016, 10:38 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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 24, 2016, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2016, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Hayes County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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 24, 10:55 PM CDT	HAIL 1	N Palisade, NE	SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT.
May 24, 11:20 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 Sse Hayes Center, NE	DELAYED REPORT

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 24, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 1159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

As transmitted.

493 
WUUS53 KLBF 250338
SVRLBF
NEC085-250430-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0049.160525T0338Z-160525T0430Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1038 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1037 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER WAUNETA...OR
  17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF IMPERIAL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES. EXPECT 
           CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO 
           MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HAYES CENTER AROUND 1120 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HAMLET.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4051 10134 4054 10099 4035 10098 4035 10134
TIME...MOT...LOC 0337Z 263DEG 23KT 4038 10136 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

TAYLOR

1 follow-up statement

912 
WWUS53 KLBF 250356
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1056 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016

NEC085-250430-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-160525T0430Z/
HAYES NE-
1056 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN HAYES COUNTY...

AT 1055 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PALISADE...OR
12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYES CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL 
         DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES. EXPECT 
         CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO 
         MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS. 

THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HAYES CENTER AROUND 1120 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HAMLET.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4051 10134 4054 10099 4035 10098 4035 10134
TIME...MOT...LOC 0355Z 263DEG 23KT 4039 10121 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

TAYLOR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Deuel	45 min
May 24, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	43 min
May 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Deuel, Garden	52 min
May 24, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	39 min
May 24, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith, Perkins	42 min
May 24, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	25 min
May 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Keith, Perkins	50 min
May 24, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	24 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	31 min
May 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	46 min
May 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln, Perkins	45 min
May 24, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	30 min
May 24, 10:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	51 min
May 24, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	50 min
May 24, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Logan, Thomas	47 min
May 24, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	40 min
May 24, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	45 min
May 24, 11:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Blaine, Custer, Loup	52 min
May 24, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha	50 min
May 24, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	56 min
May 24, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Frontier	48 min
May 24, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	46 min
May 25, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Rock, Wheeler	61 min
May 25, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	45 min
May 25, 1:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	54 min
May 25, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins	38 min
May 25, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	46 min
May 25, 2:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Lincoln	38 min
May 25, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Perkins	44 min
May 25, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	46 min
May 25, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	41 min
May 25, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	46 min
May 25, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	48 min
May 25, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Sheridan	38 min
May 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith, Perkins	48 min
May 25, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	43 min
May 25, 6:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase	43 min
May 25, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	65 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.