Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1986, 11:20 PM CDT for Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1986, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1986, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Platte 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 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 3607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 140421 COR SVROFK NEC141-140515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTION.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 1120 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...PLATTE AT 1110 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 25 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH COLUMBUS SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. 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.g A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR A PORTION OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.
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, Jul 13, 5:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 530 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11PM CDT TONIGHT... AT 530 PM CDT NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED IN WE\ST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED IN THE PANHANDLE AND IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AT THIS TIME. HETZKE
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 715 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11PM CDT TONIGHT... AT 715 PM CDT NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED IN THE PANHANDLE AND IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AT THIS TIME. HETZKE
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 810 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11PM CDT TONIGHT... AT 810 PM CDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA INTO WEST CENTRAL. THE STORMS EXTENDS 10 MILES WEST OF BRULE IN KEITH COUNTY OR 48 MILES EAST OF SIDNEY TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARTHUR IN ARTHUR COUNTY OR 52 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. NO FAR NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS BRULE AT 730 PM MDT. HETZKE
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.