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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS North Platte, NE

May 15, 1992Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1992, 11:09 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 1992, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, May 15, 9:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

NEZ007-012-016-017-160350-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
950 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1992

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 945 PM CDT...EXTREMELY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PORTIONS
OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
IN A 30 MILE WIDE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BROKEN BOW TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF
NORTH PLATTE TO 15 MILES EAST OF GRANT. BROKEN BOW AND GRANT ARE 50 MILES
EAST NORTHEAST AND 50 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE RESPECTIVELY.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF WELLFEET OR 20 MILES
SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY
RAIN..SMALL HAIL..GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVES EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THE OTHER
THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION..FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WAS
ACCOMPANYING THE STORMS.
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PERSONS NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER.
PERSONS NEAR THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD ALSO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO..
TELEVISION AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

ABBAS

Special weather statement, May 15, 10:53 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	43 min
May 15, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	45 min
May 15, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Pierce	60 min
May 15, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	28 min
May 15, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	40 min
May 15, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope, Knox, Pierce	68 min
May 15, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	68 min
May 15, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Knox	29 min
May 15, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Knox, Pierce	41 min
May 15, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope, Pierce	59 min
May 15, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Madison	34 min
May 15, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Colfax, Platte, Stanton	28 min
May 16, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Pierce	69 min
May 16, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	54 min
May 16, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wayne	66 min
May 16, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Madison, Pierce	56 min
May 16, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Wayne	34 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.