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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS North Platte, NE

July 1, 1992Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1992, 9:51 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1992, 9:51 PM MDT (03:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1992, 10:35 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Dundy County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1992-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 620 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1992-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
620 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
411 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
6.4

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The text

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 10:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHitchcock20 min
Jul 1, 11:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRed Willow44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.