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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS North Platte, NE

August 13, 1992Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1992, 7:37 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 1992, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 1992, 8:02 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Frontier County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -271 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 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 140038
SVRLBF
NEC063-140115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
737 PM CDT THU AUG 13 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
 
   ...WESTERN FRONTIER COUNTY
 
AT 733 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MAYWOOD...OR 25 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORM
WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MAYWOOD AND CURTIS ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARILER
FOR SOUTHERN LINCOLN 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.
 
WALAWENDER 0038Z

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, 4 hours 12 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

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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.