Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1992, 5:38 PM CDT for Blaine County, Brown County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 3, 1992, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Brown, NE | |
| Jul 3, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Blaine, 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 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 KOFK 032238
SVROFK
NEC009-017-032330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
538 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
BLAINE...SOUTHERN BROWN
AT 535 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 60
MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF VALENTINE...OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BREWSTER. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE
COMMUNITIES OF BREWSTER...DUNNING AND PURDUM ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
PREPARES 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.
MILLERWhat 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, Jul 3, 5:38 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 538 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY STRONG...EXTENDED FROM NEAR ARTHUR EAST TO NEAR THEDFORD. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULLEN..NEAR MULLEN AND NEAR THEDFORD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL..STROhNG WINDS AND LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM 530 TO 830 CDT. RC
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.