Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1992, 2:30 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1992, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1992, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 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, 8.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KVTN 162032 SVRVTN NEC031-162130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 330 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVI E HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THU
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, 2 hours 23 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 40 minutes 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, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 30 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.