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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS North Platte, NE

July 29, 1992Chase County, Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 5:14 PM MDT for Chase County, Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 1992, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1992, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Chase County, NE, Hayes County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 29, 5:18 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Chase, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 29, 2:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

NEZ006-012-016-017-292130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
335 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT OR 9 PM CDT FOR
   GRANT..ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

AT 332 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY
SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF THEDFORD
OR 65 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
EAST BSOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND
WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES AROUND 530 PM CDT.

ABBAS

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

NEZ006-012-292215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
413 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT OR 9 PM CDT FOR
   GRANT..ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

AT 410 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM
WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF STAPLETON OR 40 MILES NORTHEAST
OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD
OF HEAVY RAIN.  SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. A FEW
OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO KEITH AND ARTHUR COuUNTIES
AROUND 5 PM CDT.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
ABBAS

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

NEZ006-012-292300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
410 PM MDT WED JUL 29 1992

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST AND
   WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHEAST COLORADO...

AT 405 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF
GRANT OR 65 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM
WILL PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN.  SMALL HAIL AND
GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARTHUR TO NEAR
VENANGO. ARTHUR AND VENANGO ARE LOCATED 55 MILES WEST NORTHWEST
AND 65 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
ABBAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	26 min
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, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	36 min
Jul 29, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes, Hitchcock	29 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.