Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1992, 7:04 PM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1992, 7:04 PM MDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1992, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 7:22 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Grant, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBF 010104
SVRLBF
NEC075-010130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
704 PM MDT TUE JUN 30 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
EASTERN GRANT
AT 652 PM MDT DIME SIZED TO OCCSIONAL GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS
RAEPORTED AT HYANNIS NEBRASKA OR 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF
NORTH PLATTE NEBRSKA. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING THIS HAIL WAS MOVING
EST SOUTHEST AT 35 MPH.
...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM MDT..
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...DEADLY LIGHTNING
AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA QUICKLY.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 30, 6:37 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
NEZ006-010130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 630 PM MDT TUE JUN 30 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO GRANT COUNTY NEBRASKA... ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM MDT... AT 630 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO GRANT COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF WHITMAN NEBRASKA OR 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL..GUSTY SURFACE WIND ANOD DANGEROUS LIGHTNING LIGHTNING...HAS THIS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF GRANT COUNTY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. HETZKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 53 min |
| Jun 30, 8:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 54 min |
| Jun 30, 10:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 56 min |
| Jun 30, 10:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 33 min |
| Jun 30, 11:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 56 min |
| Jun 30, 11:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.