Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 8:06 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1992, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 2413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1144 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 14.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 300108 SVRLBF NEC087-145-300145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 806 PM CDT WED JUL 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...SOUTHEASTERN HITCHCOCK COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN RED-WILLOW COUNTY AT 802 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF MCCOOK OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CULBERTSON. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. MCCOOK AND CULBERTSON ARE ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABBAS
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, 3:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 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, 4:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 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, 5:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 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 29, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 53 min |
| Jul 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.