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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS North Platte, NE

June 14, 1990Madison County, Wayne County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1990, 8:57 PM CDT for Madison County, Wayne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1990, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1990, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Madison County, NE, Wayne 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 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 150157
SVROFK
NEC119-179-150245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
857 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NEBRASKA
      MADISON...WAYNE

AT 952 PM CDT NORFOLK RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES WEST OF NORFOLK...NEAR TILDEN TO
20 MILES NORTH OF NORFOLK...NEAR CARROLL.  THE STORM WAS LIKELY
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
BE ALERT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASSIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING.  FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS QUICKLY FLOOD
ROADWAYS...DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS.

 LOWLAND AND 1SOME STREET FLOODING IS ALSO LIKELY IN THE WARNED
 AREAS.

 MILLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	61 min
Jun 14, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope, Pierce	48 min
Jun 14, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cedar	48 min
Jun 14, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Madison, Stanton	46 min
Jun 14, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton	51 min
Jun 14, 10:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Colfax, Platte, Stanton	3 hr
Jun 14, 10:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Madison	3 hr
Jun 14, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	28 min
Jun 15, 1:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton	3 hr
Jun 15, 5:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Colfax, Platte	3 hr
Jun 15, 5:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Antelope	3 hr
Jun 15, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Dundy	58 min
Jun 15, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	61 min
Jun 15, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Perkins	34 min
Jun 15, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes	38 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.