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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS North Platte, NE

June 6, 1986Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1986, 5:37 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1986, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1986, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 15 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1986-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 156 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1986-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-291 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 062237
SVRLBF
NEC111-062345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
537 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY OF

SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...WESTERN LINCOLN

AT 530 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST
NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND..LARGE HAIL..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.  REMEMBER...THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY
DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANChE WARNING..SO BE ON THE
LOOKOUT!!

REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE CAN BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

SMALLFIELD 2236Z

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, Jun 6, 5:06 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
400 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 1986

HEAVY THUNDERSHOWERS ARE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

AT 400 PM MDT THUNDERSHOWERS WERE LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN ARTHUR TO KEITH
ACROSS NORTHWEST PERKINS COUNTY OF NEBRASKA. THE HEAVIEST WAS NEAR PAXTON
TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OGALLALA WHICH IS 46 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE,
NEBRASKA. HEAVY RAIN WITH ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES SIZE HAIL UWAS
REPORTED FROM THE OGALLALA POLICE DEPARTMENT AS THE STORM PASS THE CITY.

THESE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE
MOVING ACROSS PAXTON NEBRASKA WHICH IS 31 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE
BY 415 PM MDT.

HETZKE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Keith46 min
Jun 6, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith69 min
Jun 6, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry53 min

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.