Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1986, 6:10 PM CDT for Blaine County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1986, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blaine 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 172310 SVROFK NEC009-180015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 610 PM CDT THU JUL 17 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...BLAINE AT 600 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVER THUNDERSTORM 50 MILES SOUTH WEST OF AINSWORTH OR 5 MILES WEST OF DUNNING IN BLAINE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD REACH DUNNING BY 615 PM. 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. SPACE FOR OPTIONAL CALL TO ACTION...WATCHES IN EFFECT...ETC. SMITH
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 17, 5:42 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 540 PM CST THU JUL 17 1986 AT 535 PM CST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN THOMAS AND NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY OF NEBRASKA IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA. AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 75 MILES NORTHEST OF NORTH PLATTE ON THE THOMAS AND LOGAN COUNTY LINE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES PER HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE CONDITIONS THAT MAY OCCUR SUDDENLY. NEWLAND
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:53 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 550 PM CST THU JUL 17 1986 AT 535 PM CST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN THOMAS AND NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA. AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 75 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE ON THE THOMAS AND LOGAN COUNTY LINE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES PER HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE CONDITIONS THAT MAY OCCUR SUDDENLY. NEWLAND
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.