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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE

May 17, 1988Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1988, 8:41 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1988, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1988, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Custer 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1988-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1988-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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, May 17, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.