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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Hastings, NE

July 2, 1992Buffalo County, Kearney County, Phelps County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1992, 3:43 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Kearney County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 1992, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1992, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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, Jul 1, 11:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

NEZ008-013>015-017>019-020545-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1145 PM CDT WED JUL 2 1992

...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST AND THE WESTERN AREA OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA UNTIL 2 AM...AND TORNADO WATCH FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL
4 AM...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA FROM 15 MILES EAST
OF LINCOLN TO NEAR BEATRICE.  AND A STRONG STORM WAS 15 MILES NORTH
NORTHEAST OF OMAHA NEBRASKA IN SOUTHWEST HARRISON COUNTY IOWA.  MOVEMENT
OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST OR EAST NORTHEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.  VERY
HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND IS POSSIBLE.

AN INTENSE STORM WAS OVER NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AROUND 20 MILES EAST OF
NORFOLK AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  HAIL AND
STRONG WIND IS POSSIBLE.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA INTO NORTH-
WEST KANSAS AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  THE
STRONGEST STORMS IN NEBRASKA WERE JUST NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE AND
JUST SOUTH OF STRATTON.
DGS

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 12:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

NEZ008-013>015-017>019-020545-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1250 AM CDT THU JUL 2 1992

...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST AND THE WESTERN AREA OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA UNTIL 2 AM...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF
OMAHA...TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OMAHA...TO 15 MILES EAST OF BEATRICE
NEBRASKA.  IN ADDITION WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DOTTED NORTHEAST
NEBeRASKA.  FINALLY A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MCCOOK.

MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.

GRIFFITH

Local storm report, Jul 2, 2:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
210 AM CDT THU JUL 2 1992

2 AM 40 KNOT WIND AND GOLFFALL SIZE HAIL AT WILCOX NEBRASKA.

205 AM 3 INCH DIAMETER HAIL NEAR HILDRETH NEBRASKA ALSO A
LOUD ROAR WAS HEARD THAT SOUNDED LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN.
DGS

Local storm report, Jul 2, 2:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:16 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:17 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	46 min
Jul 2, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	46 min
Jul 2, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan, Phelps	51 min
Jul 2, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney	41 min
Jul 2, 2:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney	38 min
Jul 2, 2:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams, Webster	37 min
Jul 2, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	31 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.