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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS North Platte, NE

July 28, 1992Arthur County, Nebraska

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1992-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 697 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1992-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln27 min
Jul 28, 8:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier29 min
Jul 29, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase, Perkins31 min
Jul 29, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase, Hayes31 min
Jul 29, 5:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant36 min
Jul 29, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes, Hitchcock29 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.