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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE

June 5, 1992Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1992, 4:51 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 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 Buffalo County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Buffalo, NE
Jun 5, 5:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Buffalo, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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 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.

GRIFFITH

Special 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.

DAS

Local 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	Polk	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, 1992 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.