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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS North Platte, NE

June 7, 1990Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1990, 4:06 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1990, 4:06 PM MDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1990, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Cherry 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 1990-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1210 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1990-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-985 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 KBFF 072206
SVRVTN
NEC031-072300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE
ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE
506 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      EASTERN CHERRY

AT 503 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF
VALENTINE NEBRASKA...ENTERING CHERRY COUNTY NORTH OF KILGORE AND
CROOKSTON.  THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PREPARE FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING BY TAKING COVER.  STAY AWAY FROM AREAS WHERE LOOpSE ITEMS
CAN BECOME DANGEROUS FLYING DEBRIS.

GIVE REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

PFEIFFER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha46 min
Jun 7, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha28 min
Jun 7, 5:22 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeya Paha38 min
Jun 7, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt, Rock45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.