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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS North Platte, NE

May 16, 1992Madison County, Pierce County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1992, 6:19 PM CDT for Madison County, Pierce County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1992, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 80 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 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 KOFK 162319
SVROFK
NEC119-139-170015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
619 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NEBRASKA
      NORTHERN MADISON...SOUTHERN PIERCE

AT 617 PM CDT RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORFOLK ALONG THE PIERCE AND MADISON
COUNTY LINE.  THE STORM IS MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH
AND IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING.  REMAIN
INSIDE AWAY 8FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.  TAKE SHELTER
IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WAYNE COUNTY
 UNTIL 700 PM.

 TDK

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 16, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

NEZ006-007-012-162230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
435 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA TIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL
NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED BETWEEN HYANNIS AND
ARNOLD OR 75 MILES NORTHWEST TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF STAPLETON
OR 35 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE. VERY HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND
GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ABBAS

Special weather statement, May 16, 5:27 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

NEZ006-007-012-162330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
525 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA TIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 520 PM CDT...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER WEST CENTRAL
NEBRASKA.  A THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PRODUCED WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILE
AN HOUR NEAR THEDFORD WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF HALSEY OR ABOUT
60 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY ALSO
PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL.

ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED 6 MILES
NORTH OF ARNOLD OR 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO PER?KINS AND KEITH COUNTIES FROM
EXTREME NORTHEAST COLORADO AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE IN A FEW HOURS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
ABBAS

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 15, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	51 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, 6:41 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.