Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1987, 5:20 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1987, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1987, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 9, 3:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 455 PM CDT THU JUL 09 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 11 PM CDT...OR 10 PM MDT. AT 450 PM CDT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ON THE NEBRASKA- COLORADO BORDER WEST OF GRANT...IMPERIAL AND BENKLEMAN. AS YET...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED BUT THE WATCH CONTINUES... BRITTON
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:04 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 5PM MDT THU JUL 09 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 11 PM CDT...OR 10 PM MDT. AT 450 PM MDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA WITH THE HEAVIEST STORMS JUST NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA NEBRASKA AND NEAR VENANGO NEBRASKA WHICH IS 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS OUR REGION DURING NEXT FEW HOURS. CARPER
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:17 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 605 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1987 AT 555 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 50 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIP SOUTH DAKOTA TO JUST NORTHWEST OF VALENTINE NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGERIOUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...WHICH WILL BE OVER NORTHEAST CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 730 PM CDT THIS EVENING. RODDA
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 54 min |
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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.