Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 14, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1986, 7:51 PM MDT for Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1986, 7:51 PM MDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1986, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perkins 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 100151 TORLBF NEC135-100215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 851 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...PERKINS AT 742 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VENANGO NEBRASKA ..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...YOU SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. REPORTS OF TORNADOAS OR TORNADO DAMAGE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SMALLFIELD 0149Z
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 9, 5:33 PM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 630 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986 A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA INTO CHERRY COUNTY OF NEBRASKA. MULLEN NEBRASKA 53 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE NEBRASKA HAS REPORTED .62 HUNDREDTHS OF A INCH FROM A THUNDERSTORM AND IS CONTINUING TO RAIN MODERATE TO HEAVY. IN NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE REPORTED .22 OF AN FROM A THUNDERSHOWER WHILE AN UNOFFICIAL REPORT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE REPORTED 1.25 INCHES FROM THE SAME STORM. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT AROUND 15 MPH. SMALLFIELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Dundy | 41 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.