Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1988, 6:26 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1988, 6:26 PM MDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1988, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Keith 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 955 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 140026
TORLBF
NEC101-140100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
626 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHERN KEITH
AT 618 PM MDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 25 MILES NORTHWEST
OF OGALLALA MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WOULD BE
ABOUT 46 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
REPORTS OF TORNADOS OR TORNADO DAMAGE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THIS MONDAY EVENING.
MONSONWhat 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, Jun 13, 5:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 620 PM CDT MON JUN 13 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THIS MONDAY EVENING... AT 617 PM CDT A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ON A LINE FROM NORTH PLATTE EXTENDING SOUTH TO MCCOOK AND EXTENDING WEST FROM THIS LINE ABOUT 50 MILES. MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE NORTH PLATTE AREA ALONG WITH ISOLATED REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. THIS AREA IS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. MONSON
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:15 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 715 PM CDT MON JUN 13 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THIS MONDAY EVENING... AT 715 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BENKELMAN IN DUNDY COUNTY OR ABOUT 51 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND KANSAS AND ANOTHER 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE IN LINCOLN COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN SOME SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. THE REMAINDER OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA CONTAIN ONLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MONSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 6:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 17 min |
| Jun 13, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 57 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.