Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1988, 3:50 PM CDT for Brown County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1988, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1988, 4:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, NE, Keya Paha 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2040 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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, Aug 3, 1:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 135 AM CDT WED AUG 3 1988 ...SERVER THUNDERSTORM WARMING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTILL 205 PM CDT FOR EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 125 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SERVER THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF MERRITT RESERVOIR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. MERRITT RESERVOIR TRADING POST REPORTED RECEIVING 11/4 INCH HAIL (GULFBALL SIZE) FROM 110 PM TO 125 PM CDT. THIS S!TORM IS HEADING FOR THE VALENTINE AREA...PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND RESIDENTS OF VALENTINE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW. RODDA
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 210 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARMING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRED AT 205 PM CDT FOR EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 205 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE OVER EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY. THERE IS A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST CORNER OF CHERRY COUNTY TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AT 25 MILE AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS STILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD STAY ALART TO THE CHANGING WEATHE`R CONDITIONS THAT COULD OCCURE. RODDA
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 69 min |
| Aug 3, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 23 min |
| Aug 3, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 65 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.