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Tornado Warning 11, NWS North Platte, NE

August 8, 1988Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 1988, 9:31 PM CDT for Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 1988, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1988, 9:56 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hayes County, NE, Lincoln 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 1988-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1726 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1988-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -99 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1726 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.6
Supercell composite
-4.2

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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 tornado 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 8, 8:42 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
842 PM CDT MON AUG 8 1988

AT 830 PM CDT AN INTENSE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...20 MILES WIDE...WAS
80 MILES NORTH AND 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA.
AT 835 PM CDT SHERRIFF OFFICE REPORTED MADRID NEBRASKA WHICH IS 42
MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND
WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH.

THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST 20 TO 25 MPH.

HORN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln55 min
Aug 8, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHayes, Lincoln13 min
Aug 8, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln29 min
Aug 9, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith65 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.