Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1986, 5:47 PM CDT for Cedar County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1986, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1986, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cedar 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 3641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOFK 292247 SVROFK NEC027-292330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 547 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...NORTHERN CEDAR AT 545 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHERN CEDAR COUNTY OF NORTHEAST NEBRSAKA. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 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. THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODCUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
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 29, 5:12 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 510 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS EVENING. AT 505 PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTROM WAS 5 MILES WEST OF OCONTO NEBRASKA OR ABOUT 35 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE VICINTIY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT HAIL..LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Knox | 23 min |
| Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cedar, Knox | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Keya Paha | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Antelope, Knox | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.