Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1992, 6:31 PM MDT for Chase County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1992, 6:31 PM MDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1992, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chase County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 070033 SVRLBF NEC029-070115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 731 PM CDT (631 PM MDT) THU AUG 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT (715 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...NORTHERN CHASE COUNTY AT 625 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF IMPERIAL NEBRASKA 70 SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS REPLACE THE WARNING FOR SOUTHERN PERKINS COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THIS IS A DANGERO US 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.
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 6, 4:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
NEZ006-012-062330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TIME IN FIRST LINE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 440 PM MDT THU AUG 6 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA... AT 430 PM MDT RADAR REVEALED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POISED TO ENTER WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 55 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...NEAR THE TOWN OF ARTHUR...TO 10 MILES WEST OF OGALLALA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH POSSIBLE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL...WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PARTS OF ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES BY 525 PM MDT. BOATERS AND CAMPERS ON LAKE MCCONAUGHY SHOULD PREPARE NOW FOR THREATENING WEATHER. SC
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 5:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
NEZ006-012-070030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 530 PM MDT THU AUG 6 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA... AT 530 PM MDT RADAR SHOWS SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...NEAR THE TOWN OF ARTHUR...TO NEAR THE CITY OF OGALLALA TO 20 WEST OF GRANT OR 65 MILES WEST SOUTH WEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL AS THE STORMS MOVE ACROSS ARTHUR COUNTY TO KEITH COUNTY AND PERKINS COUNTY. BOATERS AND CAMPERS ON LAKE MCCONAUGHY SHOULD PREPARE NOW FOR THREATENING WEATHER. HETZKE
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.