Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1992, 11:14 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1992, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buffalo County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 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, May 15, 5:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 15, 8:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-160230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 835 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF NEBRASKA UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 830 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL...COVERED MOST OF A 30 TO 40 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NORTH CENTRAL TO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...STRETCHING FROM 50 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...OR NORTH OF GREELEY...TO BROKEN BOW...JUST SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE....AND THEN TO IMPERIAL. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN THIS AREA WAS CENTERED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE...WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT. OTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING IN EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...FROM NORTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ONEILL. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF NEBRASKA AND UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR MUCH OF EASTCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. YOU SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEA-THER RADIO...AND LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO BROADCASTS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. DGD
Special weather statement, May 15, 10:48 PM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 56 min |
| May 15, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard, Merrick, Nance | 28 min |
| May 16, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton, Merrick | 64 min |
| May 16, 2:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard | 30 min |
| May 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 36 min |
Nearby
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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.