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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS North Platte, NE

August 13, 1992Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1992, 5:06 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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: Aug 13, 1992, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 13, 5:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Lincoln, 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 132206
SVRLBF
NEC111-132245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
506 PM CDT THU AUG 13 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
      EASTERN LINCOLN

AT 501 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH
EAST OF NORTH PLATTE.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
BRADY AND MAXWELL ARE IN THE PATH  OF THIS STORM.

NORTH PLATTE IS NOT IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!

 NAME OF ISSUER

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 13, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

NEZ006-132125-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
325 PM CDT THU AUG 13 1992

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

AT 320 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM STORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND SMALL HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF PURDUM...OR 55 MILES NORTH OF NORTH
PLATTE.

THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH HALSEY AND THE HALSEY FOREST BY 355
PM CDT.  MARBLE SIZED HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND
WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...M*OVE TO A PLACE OF REINFORCED
SHELTER.

WALAWENDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Logan	35 min
Aug 13, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	30 min
Aug 13, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	42 min
Aug 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.