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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS North Platte, NE

July 28, 1992Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1992, 9:31 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1992, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1992, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Frontier County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 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

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 28, 4:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 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, 6:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 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

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 8:44 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	26 min
Jul 28, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	27 min
Jul 29, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Perkins	31 min
Jul 29, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	31 min
Jul 29, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	36 min
Jul 29, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes, Hitchcock	29 min

Nearby

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.