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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE

June 16, 1990Boone County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1990, 2:12 AM CDT for Boone County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1990, 2:12 AM CDT (07:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1990, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Boone 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1990-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1990-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 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 KOFK 160712
FFWOFK
NEC011-141-119-139-037-167-179-039-161015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
212 AM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NEBRASKA
      BOONE...PLATTE...MADISON...PIERCE...COLFAX...STANTON...
      WAYNE...CUMING

AT 200 AM CDT NORFOLK RADAR SHOWED MORE HEAVY THUNDERSHOWERS
MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.  THIS WILL KEEP LOCAL AREAS
OF FLASHFLOODING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA FOR AT LEAST
THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
WATER IS RISING ON ELM CREEK AT PLATTE CENTER...JUST NORTHWEST OF
COLUMBUS.  FLOODING IS ALSO EXPECTED ALONG SHELL CREEK...UNION
CREEK AND MAPLE CREEK.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHitchcock36 min
Jun 15, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln59 min
Jun 15, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier, Hayes26 min
Jun 15, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln64 min
Jun 15, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier, Red Willow25 min
Jun 15, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier38 min
Jun 15, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Grant67 min
Jun 15, 11:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFBoone3 hr
Jun 15, 11:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFColfax, Cuming, Platte, Stanton3 hr
Jun 15, 11:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFMadison, Pierce, Wayne3 hr
Jun 16, 2:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFColfax, Cuming, Platte, Stanton3 hr
Jun 16, 2:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFMadison, Pierce, Wayne3 hr
Jun 16, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCedar, Knox34 min
Jun 16, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd, Holt56 min
Jun 16, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFBoyd, Holt31 min
Jun 16, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFBoyd, Holt, Knox28 min
Jun 16, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFKnox30 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.