Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 6, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1988, 6:14 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1988, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1988, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 950 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 292314
TORLBF
NEC111-292345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
614 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
LINCOLN
AT 610PM CDT A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED BY FSS AND WEATHER PERSONAL
WEST OF NORTHPLATTE NE MOVG NORTH.
ALL PEOPLE IN THE NORTH PLATTE NE AREA ARE TO TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY.
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.
THIS TORNADO WILL HIT NORTH PLATTE...TAKE COVER!!
COFFIN 292313ZWhat 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 29, 12:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 1235 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA.. AT 1215 PM CDT...THREE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE WEST PAT OF CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA. ONE WAS LOCATED 42 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALLIANCE. A SECOND WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN WITH A THIRD 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HAIL. PEOPLE IN WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD CLOSELY WATCH THESE STORMS AND MOVE TO A SAFE LOCATION IF DANGEROUS WEATHER APPROACHES. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE AND INCREASE IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. ALL PERSONS IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD ST AY ALART TO THE POSSIBLE SEVER WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT COULD DEVELOP. RODDA
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:52 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 1240 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1988 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA.. AT 1215 PM CDT...THREE VERRY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE WEST PAT OF CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA. ONE WAS LOCATED 42 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALLIANCE. A SECOND WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN WITH A THIRD 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HAIL. PEOPLE IN WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD CLOSELY WATCH THESE STORMS AND MOVE TO A SAFE LOCATION IF DANGEROUS WEATHER APPROACHES. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE AND INCREASE IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. ALL PERSONS IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRAS KA SHOULD STAY ALART TO THE POSSIBLE SEVER WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT COULD DEVELOP. RODDA
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 1240 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1988 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA.. AT 1215 PM CDT...THREE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE WEST PART OF CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA. ONE WAS LOCATED 42 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALLIANCE. A SECOND WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN WITH A THIRD 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HAIL. PEOPLE IN WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD CLOSELY WATCH THESE STORMS AND MOVE TO A SAFE LOCATION IF DANGEROUS WEATHER APPROACHES. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE AND INCREASE IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. ALL PERSONS IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD STAY ALART TO THE POSSIBLE SEVER WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT COULD DEVELOP. RODDA
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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.