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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS North Platte, NE

June 15, 1992Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1992, 5:54 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1992, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Hayes County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 366 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 152254
SVRLBF
NEC085-152345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
554 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
 
   ...HAYES COUNTY
 
AT 550 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
HAYES CENTER OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. HAYES CENTER IS
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
MONSON 2254Z

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, Jun 15, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-152130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
340 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11PM CDT...

AT 340 PM CDT...A AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 55 MILES
TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE WITH THE STRONGEST STORM 15
MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA NEBRASKA.
THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..HAIL AND GUSTY SURFACE WIND AS THE SnTORMS
MOVE ACROSS KEITH COUNTY.

ACH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 4:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith50 min
Jun 15, 5:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln43 min
Jun 15, 5:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln60 min
Jun 15, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith69 min
Jun 15, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFKeith30 min
Jun 15, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln34 min
Jun 15, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln26 min
Jun 15, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln28 min
Jun 15, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln57 min

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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.