Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1990, 6:47 PM CDT for Frontier County, Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1990, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Lincoln 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBF 142347
SVRLBF
NEC063-085-111-150045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
647 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHWEST FRONTIER...NORTHEAST HAYES...SOUTHEAST LINCOLN
AT 643 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON THE
BOADERS OF HAYES AND FRONTIER INTO SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTIES
WHICH IS 3 MILES WEST OF MAYWOOD TO 7 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF
MOOREFIELD. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!
RCWhat 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, Aug 14, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
NEZ006-012-142220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 330 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990 AT 325 PM CDT...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS STARTING TO MOVE INTO WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST NORTHWEST OF ASHBY AND WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. ASHBY IS ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF ALLIANCE. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND INTENSE LIGHTNING ASL THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA DURING THE NEXT SEVEREAL HOURS. RC
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
NEZ006-012-140030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 530 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990 AT 525 PM CDT...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST EAST AND WEST OF MULLEN WHICH IS ABOUT 60 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND COULD BRING SMALL HAIL STRONG WINDS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. RC
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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.