Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1992, 6:04 PM MDT for Arthur County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1992, 6:04 PM MDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1992, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Arthur County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 697 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 290006 SVRLBF NEC005-290030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 704 PM CDT (604 PM MDT) TUE JUL 28 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT (630 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...ARTHUR COUNTY AT 6 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF ARTHUR...OR 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ARTHUR AND CALORA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOrWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 28, 3:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
NEZ-012-016-017-282330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO CHANGE HEADER... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 440 PM CDT TUE JUL 28 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTILL 11PM CDT... AT 415 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF MCCOOK NEAR DANBURY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE HAIL..STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST INTO KANSAS BETWEEN 415 PM AND 5PM CDT. RC
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 5:17 PM MDT, 47 minutes before
NEZ-006-012-290030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 616 PM CDT TUE JUL 28 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTILL 11PM CDT... AT 610 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME QUITE STRONG... WERE BEGINING TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF OUR REGION ABOUT 80 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE HAIL..STRONG WINDS AND LIGHTNING. ALSO STORMS WERE DElVELOPING JUST NORTH OF MCCOOK WHICH IS 70 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 15 MPH. RC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Jul 28, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 29 min |
| Jul 29, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 31 min |
| Jul 29, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 31 min |
| Jul 29, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 36 min |
| Jul 29, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Hitchcock | 29 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.