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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS North Platte, NE

June 15, 1992Colfax County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1992, 7:17 PM CDT for Colfax County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1992, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Colfax County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 3614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 346 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 160017
SVROFK
NEC037-160045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
717 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NEBRASKA
      COLFAX

AT 715 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES
WEST OF SCHUYLER IN SOUTHERN COLFAX COUNTY.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND
VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA.
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN ALSO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH
LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT.

 BOWMAN

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, 3 hours 33 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Red Willow	58 min
Jun 15, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Red Willow	67 min
Jun 15, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Colfax, Platte	35 min
Jun 15, 8:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Colfax, Platte	43 min
Jun 16, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	30 min
Jun 16, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	60 min
Jun 16, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	61 min
Jun 16, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	75 min
Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	36 min
Jun 16, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Brown, Keya Paha	31 min
Jun 16, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	38 min
Jun 16, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Boyd, Keya Paha	28 min
Jun 16, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	68 min
Jun 16, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	30 min
Jun 16, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	43 min
Jun 16, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Loup	33 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.