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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE

March 29, 2016Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2016, 7:23 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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, 7:23 PM MDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2016, 7:50 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted.

373 
WUUS53 KLBF 300123
SVRLBF
NEC031-300215-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0005.160330T0123Z-160330T0215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
823 PM CDT TUE MAR 29 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE  HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT/815 PM MDT/

* AT 822 PM CDT/722 PM MDT/...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 19
  MILES NORTH OF MULLEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...PUBLIC. 

  IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HIGHWAY 97 CROSSING BIG CREEK...MERRITT RESERVOIR...VALENTINE
  NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AND HIGHWAY 97 CROSSING THE NORTH LOUP
  RIVER.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 97 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 87 AND 116.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4227 10086 4234 10113 4267 10094 4257 10055
TIME...MOT...LOC 0122Z 208DEG 32KT 4232 10100 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

SNIVELY/CDC

1 follow-up statement

569 
WWUS53 KLBF 300150
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
850 PM CDT TUE MAR 29 2016

NEC031-300200-
/O.CAN.KLBF.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160330T0215Z/
CHERRY NE-
850 PM CDT TUE MAR 29 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4227 10086 4234 10113 4267 10094 4257 10055
TIME...MOT...LOC 0148Z 208DEG 32KT 4254 10084 

$$

SNIVELY/CDC

The 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, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith	23 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.