It is not clear how the nuclear envelope (NE) is ruptured for chromatin externalization during NETosis. The membrane rupture during neutrophil NET release was described as a membrane lysis process, this notion, however, has been questioned. Here, we found that lamin B, the structural NE component, was involved in NETosis. Unexpectedly, lamin B was not fragmented by destructive proteolysis, but rather disassembled into its intact full-length molecule, in NETotic cells. In the mechanistic study, our experiments demonstrated that cytosolic PKCα translocated to the nucleus, where it serves as a NETotic lamin kinase to induce lamin B phosphorylation, following by lamina disassembly and NE rupture. To determine causality, we found that decreasing lamin B phosphorylation, by PKCα inhibition or genetic deletion, or mutation at the PKCα consensus phosphorylation sites of lamin B, attenuated extracellular trap formation. Importantly, strengthening NE by lamin B overexpression attenuated neutrophil NETosis in vivo and alleviated exhibition of NET-associated inflammatory cytokines in UVB irradiated skin of lamin B transgenic mice. These findings advance our understanding of NETosis process and elucidate a cellular mechanism that PKCα-mediated lamin B phosphorylation drives nuclear envelope rupture for NET release in neutrophils.