Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1991, 3:16 PM MDT for Chase County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1991, 3:16 PM MDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1991, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chase County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 162117 TORLBF NEC029-135-162200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 416 PM CDT (316 PM MDT) THU MAY 16 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT (400 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...WESTERN CHASE COUNTY...PERKINS COUNTY AT 310 PM MDT NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS AND TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN WESTERN CHASE AND MUCH OF PERKINS COUNTIES. THE TORNADOES HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABL9E. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. SC
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 16, 12:43 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
NEZ012-016-017-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 140 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 AT 135 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA FROM MCCOOK OR 53 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA TO NORTH PLATTE AND WEST TO THE COLORADO BORDER. AT 133 PM CDT A SPOTTER IN WELFLEET NEBRASKA IT MOVES NORTH THROUGH THE BRADY AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PEA SIZE HAIL FALLING LIKE A SNOWSTORM COVERING THE GROUNDR. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON WITH SOME AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. SMALLFIELD
Special weather statement, May 16, 12:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
NEZ012-016-017-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 140 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 AT 135 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA FROM MCCOOK OR 53 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA TO NORTH PLATTE AND WEST TO THE COLORADO BORDER. AT 133 PM CDT A SPOTTER IN WELFLEET NEBRASKA REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL FALLING LIKE A SNOWSTORM COVERING THE GROUND. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTIaNUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON WITH SOME AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. SMALLFIELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 12:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Knox, Pierce | 35 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.