Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1990, 9:38 PM CDT for Garfield County, Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1990, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1990, 10:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Garfield County, NE, Holt 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1876 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KOFK 020238
SVROFK
NEC071-089-020345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
938 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHWEST GARFIELD...SOUTHWEST HOLT
AT 932 PM CDT THE NORFOLK RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF BURWELL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN
HOUR.
PEA TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPRTED NORTH OF BURWELL ALONG
WITH HEAVY RAIN.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING
AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN ALSO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO WARNING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL AND
A PART OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA UNTIL 1 AM CDT SATURDAY.
VAWhat 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 1, 4:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
NEZ006-012210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 310 PM MDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM MDT. AT 310 PM MDT INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST GRANT COUNTY. THIS IS 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN, HAIL, GUSTY SURFACE WINDS, AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHNORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SMALLFIELD
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-020100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 715 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 700 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF BRADY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN BRADY AND NEAR MAXWELL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY NORTH THROUGH EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHERN DUNDY COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 700 PM CDT. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 25 min |
| Jun 1, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 28 min |
| Jun 1, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 32 min |
| Jun 1, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Loup | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 28 min |
| Jun 1, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 63 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.