Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1991, 11:58 PM CDT for Madison County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1991, 11:58 PM CDT (04:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1991, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What 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, May 30, 8:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
NEZ007-310255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 855 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHEAST CUSTER COUNTY... LATEST RADAR OBSERVATIONS SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHEAST DAWSON COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF BROKEN BOW NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR INTO SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY. PERSONS IN THE TOWN OF ANSLEY SHOULD PREPARE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES BY 940 PM CDT. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING NEAR THE TOWN OF OCONTO...WHICH IS 40 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH REMAIXNS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 2 AM CDT. SC
Special weather statement, May 30, 9:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
NEZ007-310255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 855 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHEAST CUSTER COUNTY... AT 850 PM CDT...LATEST RADAR OBSERVATIONS SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHEAST DAWSON COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF BROKEN BOW NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR INTO SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY. PERSONS IN THE TOWN OF ANSLEY SHOULD PREPARE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES BY 940 PM CDT. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING NEAR THE TOWN OF OCONTO...WHICH IS 40 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE. REMEMBER A_ TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 2 AM CDT. SC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 65 min |
| May 30, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 38 min |
| May 30, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 60 min |
| May 30, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 28 min |
| May 30, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 29 min |
| May 30, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Loup | 67 min |
| May 30, 10:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 10 min |
| May 30, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 37 min |
| May 31, 12:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Madison, Stanton | 37 min |
| May 31, 12:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Madison, Stanton | 23 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.