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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS North Platte, NE

June 28, 19894 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1989, 4:10 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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 28, 1989, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1989, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 4:43 PM CDTTornado F0Hayes, 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 65 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 12:00Z on 1989-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1949 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 12:00Z on 1989-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 282110
SVRLBF
NEC063-085-087-111-282215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
410 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
      NORTHWEST FRONTIER...HAYES...NORTHERN HITCHCOCK...
      SOUTHERN LINCOLN

AT 4 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ONE MILE WEST OF WELLFLEET, NE
...ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ONE MILE NORTH OF PALISADE, NE.
BOTH STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.  IF OUTDOORS...
STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS.  MOVE INDOOR IF POSSIBLE.  WHEN
INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING
TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.

 HORN 2107

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 28, 1:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
120 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1989

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CUSTER COUNTY HAD EXPIRED AS OF 115
PM CDT...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL
AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 6 PM CDT...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO ROLL ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS
AFTERNOON.

AT 120 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EAST CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY
OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA.  SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WERE 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW NEBRASKA EXTENDING EAST TO THE COUNTY LINE.

AT 1227 PM CDT A NEBRASKA STATE TROOPER CALLED IN A POSSIBLE TORNADO
EAST OF SARGENT NEBRASKA.  NO DAMAGE FROM THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD
BEEN REPORTED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AS OF THIS TIME.  THE STORM
THAT PRODUCED THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD MOVED OUT OF CUSTER COUNTY AS
OF 120 PM CDT.

AT 1242 PM CDT SARGENT NEBRASKA DID REPORT 40 TO 50 MILE AN HOUR WIND
A3LONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND HAEVY RAIN.  SMALL TREE LIMBS WERE REPORTED
DOWN.

IF YOU LIVE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...KEEP ALERT TO
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES.

MEYER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt48 min
Jun 28, 10:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt29 min
Jun 28, 10:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield, Holt, Wheeler52 min
Jun 28, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield, Wheeler60 min
Jun 28, 11:56 AM CDTTornado WarningLBFGarfield34 min
Jun 28, 12:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuster34 min
Jun 28, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster60 min
Jun 28, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln56 min
Jun 28, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier, Lincoln29 min
Jun 28, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier, Lincoln27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.