Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1992, 4:51 PM CDT for Polk County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1992, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 2671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 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 KGRI 052152 COR
SVRGRI
NEC019-143-052230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
451 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
BUFFALO...
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHERN POLK...
AT 445 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST
OF KEARNEY AT PLEASANTON...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
30 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR SILVER CREEK. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED AT PLEASANTON IN BUFFALO COUNTY AND TREES WERE BLOWN
OVER AT PLEASANTON.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG
BUILDING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM.
REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE CAN BE GIVEN TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
DASWhat 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, 3 hours 19 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 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, 2 hours 6 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.
DASLocal storm report, Jun 5, 4:27 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 425 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 AT 42O PM THE SHERIFFS DEPT. OF NANCE COUNTY NEBRASKA REPORTED TREE TOP DAMAGE DUE TO A TORNADO IN WESTERN NANCE COUNTY...BETWEEN WOLBACH AND FULLERTON. THE GROUND WAS COVERED BY HAIL IN AREAS OF WESTERN NANCE COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING TOWARD FULLERTON. DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 38 min |
| 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 | 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.