Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2016, 4:47 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 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 8, 2016, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:48 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 13 Se Stockville, NE | REPORT RELAYED VIA NWS HASTINGS |
| May 8, 4:58 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 13 E Stockville, 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
318
WUUS53 KLBF 082147
SVRLBF
NEC063-082215-
/O.NEW.KLBF.SV.W.0009.160508T2147Z-160508T2215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
447 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 446 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MEDICINE
CREEK RESERVOIR STATE RECREATION AREA...OR 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CURTIS...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EUSTIS AND ORAFINO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4037 10024 4070 10028 4070 9998 4059 9998
4044 10001 4044 10009 4037 10010
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 184DEG 30KT 4045 10015
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
SNIVELY2 follow-up statements
927
WWUS53 KLBF 082201
SVSLBF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
501 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016
NEC063-082215-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160508T2215Z/
FRONTIER NE-
501 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY...
AT 500 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF MEDICINE CREEK RESERVOIR STATE RECREATION AREA...OR 21 MILES EAST
OF CURTIS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EUSTIS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4044 10021 4070 10027 4070 9998 4059 9998
4049 10004 4044 10009
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 187DEG 21KT 4052 10013
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
SNIVELY826
WWUS53 KLBF 082213
SVSLBF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
513 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016
NEC063-082223-
/O.EXP.KLBF.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160508T2215Z/
FRONTIER NE-
513 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT...
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 WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.
LAT...LON 4044 10021 4070 10027 4070 9998 4059 9998
4049 10004 4044 10009
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 184DEG 30KT 4052 10013
$$
SNIVELYThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Lincoln | 32 min |
| May 7, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 26 min |
| May 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Lincoln | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Chase | 50 min |
| May 7, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | McPherson | 44 min |
| May 8, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Logan | 46 min |
| May 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Frontier | 35 min |
| May 8, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer | 39 min |
| May 8, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer | 24 min |
| May 8, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer | 41 min |
| May 8, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer | 38 min |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Custer | 29 min |
| May 8, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LBF | Logan | 22 min |
| May 8, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 37 min |
| May 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 31 min |
| May 8, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 8, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 27 min |
| May 8, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 23 min |
| May 8, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 33 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.