Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1992, 3:37 PM CDT for Greeley County, Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1992, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greeley County, NE, Howard County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 5, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-051930-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
140 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992
...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
AT 130 PM CDT...GRAND ISLAND RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY
RAIN 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW NEBRASKA.
THIS STORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WHICH WAS MOVING
THROUGH CENTRAL AND AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. EARLIER DEPUTY SHERIFFS
REPORTED ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES 13 MILES WEST OF TAYLOR
NEBRASKA. THE AREA OF STORMS EXTEND FROM THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER
SOUTHWESTWARD TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY NEBRASKA.
GRIFFITHSpecial weather statement, Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-052030-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
244 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992
...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
AT 225 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.
THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 70 MILE WIDE BAND FROM THE SOUTH DAKOTA/NEBRASKA
BORDER 30 MILES NORTH OF O`NEIL...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR BROKEN BOW. THE
STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA...LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW NEAR
CORNSTALK NEBRASKA.
OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS WERE OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
JUST SOUTHWEST OF IMPERIAL.
MOVEMENT OF ALL THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 35 MPH.
PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO
OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS CONCERNING THE WEATHER SFITUATION
THIS AFTERNOON FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
DASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Polk | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.