Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1992, 8:22 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1992, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, 3:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
NEZ012-016-152100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 303 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 255 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM VENANGO TO DICKENS...OR FROM 75 MILES SOUTHWEST TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEAR DICKENS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS AREA OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN LINCOLN...PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PEOPLE IN GRANT...DICKENS AND LAMAR CAN EXPECT SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. WALAWENDER
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
NEZ012-016-017-152145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 342 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 339 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM BRULE TO WELLFLEET...OR FROM 55 MILES WEST TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE NEAR WELLFLEET. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS AREA OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH KEITH...LINCOLN...PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PEOPLE IN GRANT...WELLFLEET ...KEYSTONE AND OGALLALA CAN EXPECT SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. WALAWENDER
Special weather statement, May 15, 4:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
NEZ006-012-016-017-152225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 426 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 420 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM HAIGLER TO THEDFORD...OR FROM 85 MILES SOUTHWEST TO 50 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. A SECOND STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEAR PAXTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS AREA OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH KEITH...LINCOLN...PERKINS ...CHASE...DUNDY...HAYES...MCPHERSON AND THOMAS COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PEOPLE IN PAXTON...NOWRTH PLATTE...IMPERIAL AND SUTHERLAND CAN EXPECT SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. WALAWENDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Antelope | 45 min |
| May 15, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Pierce | 60 min |
| May 15, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 28 min |
| May 15, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 40 min |
| May 15, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Antelope, Knox, Pierce | 68 min |
| May 15, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Knox | 29 min |
| May 15, 9:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Knox, Pierce | 41 min |
| May 15, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Antelope, Pierce | 59 min |
| May 15, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Madison | 34 min |
| May 15, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Colfax, Platte, Stanton | 28 min |
| May 15, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 51 min |
| May 16, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Pierce | 69 min |
| May 16, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Antelope | 54 min |
| May 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wayne | 66 min |
| May 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Madison, Pierce | 56 min |
| May 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Wayne | 34 min |
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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.