Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1988, 7:15 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1988, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1988, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frontier 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 KLBF 180015
SVRLBF
NEC063-180115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
715 PM CDT TUE MAY 17 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHWEST FRONTIER
AT 710 CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF
MAYWOOD OR 26 MILES NORTH OF MCCOOK. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...DEADLY LIGHTNING
AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA QUICKLY.
REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE CAN BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.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, May 17, 6:45 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 643 PM CDT TUE MAY 17 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 11 PM CDT... AT 635 PM CDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MCCOOK NEBRASKA. HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED AT MCCOOK AT 622 PM CDT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SMALLFIELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 34 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.