Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1986, 5:22 PM CST for Stanton County, Wayne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1986, 5:22 PM CST (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1986, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Stanton County, NE, Wayne County, NE
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 5:25 PM CST | Hail 1.5 | Stanton, NE | |
| Apr 26, 5:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Wayne, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 3605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 522 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 4:33 PM CST, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 325 PM MST SAT APR 26 1986 A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AT 325 PM MST A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS APPROACHING DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA WHICH IS LOCATED ABOUT 90 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTENING CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVES ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. MEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Platte | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Madison, Stanton | 20 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.