Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1992, 10:59 AM CDT for Keya Paha County, Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports 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
- Aug 4, 1992, 10:59 AM CDT (15:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1992, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Keya Paha County, NE, Rock County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 11:00 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Keya Paha, NE | |
| Aug 4, 11:31 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rock, NE | |
| Aug 4, 12:09 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rock, 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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, Aug 4, 5:26 AM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
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NEZ012-017-041600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION SOUTHEAST CORNER OF COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 926 AM CDT TUE AUG 4 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 905 AM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE 25 MILES WIDE FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST TO 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND MODERATE RAINFALL UNTIL 10 AM CDT AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHEST CORNER OF LINCOLN CO UNTY. STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. JER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 11:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 80 min |
| Aug 4, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | |
| Aug 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | |
| Aug 4, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 42 min |
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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.