Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 17, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1989, 1:33 AM CDT for Garfield County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1989, 1:33 AM CDT (06:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1989, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garfield 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KOFK 260633
TOROFK
NEC071-260700-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
133 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
GARFIELD
AT 0125 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF
BURWELL IN SOUTHWEST GARFIELD COUNTY...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST
OF BROKEN BOW MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF POSSIBLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID
WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES...TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED
BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF
NORTHEAST AND NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 3 AM CDT.
MILLER
?FSDFWCHDG88FSDWhat 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 26, 12:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 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, 1 hour 18 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, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 47 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.