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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS North Platte, NE

July 24, 1987Boone County, Madison County, Platte County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1987, 5:48 PM CDT for Boone County, Madison County, Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1987, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1987, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Boone County, NE, Madison County, NE, Platte County, NE

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 24, 5:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Madison, NE
Jul 24, 5:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Madison, NE
Jul 24, 5:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Boone, NE
Jul 24, 6:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Platte, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KOFK 242248
SVROFK
NEC011-141-119-037-167-039-242345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
548 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES OF

NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...BOONE...PLATTE...MADISON...COLFAX...STANTON AND 
 CUMING

AT 545 PM CDT A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY RADAR
AND REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC THAT EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF
NORFOLK...TO JUST SOUTH OF NORFOLK...TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
NORFOLK.  THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

TREES AND POWER POLES WERE DOWNED IN NORFOLK AT 535PM CDT...ONE
INCH HAIL 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORFOLK AT 5 40 PM CDT AND NUMEROUS
REPORTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS.

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.

 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST
 NEBRASKA UNTIL 8 PM CDT.
 BOWMAN 2247Z

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

Local storm report, Jul 24, 1:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE
110 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 1987

SELS MKC OMA A VTN

TIME
1225 PM   CDT HAIL BASEBALL SIZED REPORTED 10 MILES NORTH OR NEZEL.

1245 PM   CDT FUNNEL CLOUD 2 MILES NORTH OF KILGORE REPORTED TO
              SHERIFF'S DEPT BY ROAD WORKER.

RODDA

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
122 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR LOGAN..THOMAS..AND
CUSTER IN NEBRASKA...

AT 115 PM CDT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND
CENTRAL NEBRASKA IN THE COUNTIES OF LOGAN..THOMAS..AND CUSTER.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF VALENTINE NEBRASKA IN
CHERRY COUNTY ..MOVING EAST 20 MPH.

PERSONS IN THESE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS

HORN

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
204 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR LOGAN..THOMAS..AND
CUSTER IN NEBRASKA...

AT 200 PM CDT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND
CENTRAL NEBRASKA IN THE COUNTIES OF LOGAN..THOMAS..AND CUSTER.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ACROSS THE BORDER IN SOUTH DAKOTA..OUT OF
THE RANGE OF WSO NORTH PLATTES RADAR.

PERSONS IN THESE WATCH AREGA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS

HORN

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	62 min
Jul 24, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cedar, Knox	57 min
Jul 24, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Pierce	35 min
Jul 24, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Pierce, Wayne	57 min
Jul 24, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Colfax, Cuming, Stanton	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.