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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS North Platte, NE

June 16, 1992Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1992, 1:50 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 1992, 1:50 PM MDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1992, 2:20 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Cherry County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 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 KVTN 161954
SVRVTN
NEC031-162020-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE
250 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      NORTHWEST CHERRY

AT 250 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 10 MILES
WEST SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN NEBRASKA OR 65 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE
NEBRASKA IN THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL
NEBRASKA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

PREPARE FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING BY TAKING COVER.  STAY AWAY FROM AREAS WHERE LOOSE ITEMS
CAN BECOME DANGEROUS FLYING DEBRIS.

GIVE REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

BURNS

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 16, 12:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

NEC031-161800

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE
12 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

AT 1155 AM CDT...A THUNDERSHOWER HAD DEVELOPED 5 MILES SOUTH OF
NENZEL OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE. THE THUNDERSTORM HAS THE
POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL.
THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

BURNS

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:50 PM MDT, 1 hour before

NEC031-161800

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE
145 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

AT 140 PM CDT...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS IN THE VICINITY OF KILGORE
HAD MOVED ACROSS THE SOUTH DbAKOTA BORDER ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF
VALENTINE...NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THIS
STORM.

BURNS

The office that day

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

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