Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1990, 7:42 PM CDT for Boyd County, Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1990, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boyd 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 KOFK 230042
SVROFK
NEC089-015-230130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
742 PM CDT WED AUG 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
HOLT...EASTERN BOYD
AT 736 PM CDT NORFOLK RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF O NEILL TO 20 MILES WEST
OF O NEILL. THE LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
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.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. ONCE
INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL
NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM CDT...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT
FOR NORTHCENTRAL THROUGH TONIGHT.
MILLERWhat 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 22, 4:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
NEZ006-012-016-222220 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 425 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE FROM 15 NORTHEAST OF THEDFORD IN THOMAS COUNTY OR 51 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE TO 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WAS 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST TO 3 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF TYRON OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO FORMING IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBBRASKA NEAR BENKELMAN OR 41 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. FOR THE REST OF THIS EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 80S TO LOW 90S. BS
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 7:26 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
NEZ006-012-016-230125 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 720 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS CANCELLED FOR THOMAS COUNTY... AT 715 PM DT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE 35 MILES WIDE FROM 60 MILES TO 50 SUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. NORTH PLATTES WEATHER SERVICE REPORTED 0.18 OF INCH OF RAIN IN THE STORM THAT PASSED OVER THE STATION IN THE PASR HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTOM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT. JER
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 7:27 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
NEZ006-012-016-230125 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER UPDATE...CORRECTION ON TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 720 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS CANCELLED FOR THOMAS COUNTY... AT 715 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE 35 MILES WIDE FROM 60 MILES TO 50 SUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. NORTH PLATTES WEATHER SERVICE REPORTED 0.18 OF INCH OF RAIN IN THE STORM THAT PASSED OVER THE STATION IN THE PASR HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTOM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT. JER
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 7:35 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
NEZ006-012-016-230125 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER UPDATE...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 732 PM CDT WED AUG 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS CANCELLED FOR THOMAS COUNTY... AT 715 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE 35 MILES WIDE FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST TO 50 SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. NORTH PLATTES WEATHER SER VICE REPORTED 0.18 OF INCH OF RAIN IN THE STORM THAT PASSED OVER THE STATION IN THE PASR HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTOM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT. JER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Antelope, Pierce | 61 min |
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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.