Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1989, 12:43 AM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1989, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1989, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt County, NE
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:05 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Holt, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 2940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.9
- Supercell composite
- 28.2
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, Jun 26, 12:09 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 0012 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1989 AT 0010 AM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS OVER NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 12:15 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 0015 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1 AM CDT... AT 0010 AM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS OVER NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. A WIND GUST OF 47 MPH WAS RECORDED AT THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NORTH PLATTE AT 1153 PM CDT SUNDAY NIGHT. SOME TREES AND BRANCHES WERE BLOWN DOWN...MAINLY IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NORTH PLATTE AS THIS STORM PASSED. SMALiLFIELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 25 min |
| Jun 25, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 25 min |
| Jun 25, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 29 min |
| Jun 25, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 1:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.