Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS North Platte, NE

June 4, 1991Antelope County, Knox County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1991, 2:37 PM CDT for Antelope County, Knox County, Nebraska. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1991, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1991, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Antelope County, NE, Knox County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 4, 2:50 PM CDTHail 1.75Antelope, NE
Jun 4, 3:00 PM CDTHail 0.75Knox, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1991-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1264 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1991-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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, Jun 4, 12:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-041900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
145 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1991

NOAA WEATHER RADIO WXL 68 ORIGINATING FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE
AT NORTH! PLATTE...WILL BE DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE UNTILL ABOUT 2 PM CDT
THIS AFTERNOON.

RN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 1:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHolt36 min
Jun 4, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFMadison30 min
Jun 4, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMadison, Pierce58 min
Jun 4, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFMadison, Stanton39 min
Jun 4, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFMadison, Pierce, Stanton, Wayne44 min
Jun 4, 4:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFMadison, Pierce, Stanton, Wayne4 hr
Jun 4, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMadison, Stanton, Wayne57 min
Jun 4, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFStanton40 min
Jun 4, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuming43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.