Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS North Platte, NE

May 14, 1986Boyd County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 1:56 PM CDT for Boyd County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1986, 1:56 PM CDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1986, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Boyd County, NE

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1986-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1986-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KOFK 141856
SVROFK
NEC015-141930-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
156 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY OF

NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...EASTERN BOYD

AT 150 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO
SOUTHERN BOYD COUNTY ABOUT 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORFOLK.  THE
STORM WILL PASS NEAR SPENCER AND LYNCH AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

 REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DEADLY WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 75 MPH...LARGE HAIL...KILLER LIGHTNING...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS
THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA.

 BOWMAN 1855Z

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.