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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS North Platte, NE

May 29, 2016Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2016, 7:35 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 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 29, 2016, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Custer County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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 29, 7:43 PM CDT	HAIL 1	11 Sw Callaway, NE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 1232 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

As transmitted.

102 
WUUS53 KLBF 300035
SVRLBF
NEC041-300100-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0071.160530T0035Z-160530T0100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
735 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 734 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF
  GOTHENBURG...OR 31 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STAPLETON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  15 MPH.

  HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ETNA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4112 10024 4136 10007 4105 9970 4104 9972
      4105 10017
TIME...MOT...LOC 0034Z 224DEG 15KT 4111 10015 

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

POWER

1 follow-up statement

382 
WWUS53 KLBF 300049
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
749 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

NEC041-300100-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-160530T0100Z/
CUSTER NE-
749 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY...

AT 749 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF CALLAWAY...OR 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ETNA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4116 10019 4136 10007 4105 9970 4104 9972
      4105 10012
TIME...MOT...LOC 0049Z 224DEG 15KT 4116 10009 

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

POWER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	35 min
May 29, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	34 min
May 29, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes, Perkins	28 min
May 29, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	28 min
May 29, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	33 min
May 29, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	31 min
May 29, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	13 min
May 29, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	31 min
May 29, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Logan	30 min
May 29, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	32 min
May 29, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Valley	30 min
May 29, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garfield	41 min
May 29, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Loup	36 min
May 29, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha, Rock	32 min
May 29, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	27 min
May 29, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	17 min
May 29, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	31 min
May 29, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	32 min
May 30, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	43 min
May 30, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LBF	Garden	31 min
May 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	32 min
May 30, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	41 min
May 30, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	33 min
May 30, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	63 min
May 30, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Garden	38 min
May 30, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith	29 min
May 30, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	34 min
May 30, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	60 min
May 30, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keith, Perkins	30 min
May 30, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha	41 min
May 30, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	28 min
May 30, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Chase, Hayes	43 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	34 min
May 30, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Cherry	46 min
May 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Keya Paha	57 min
May 30, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins	36 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.