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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS North Platte, NE

July 3, 1992Blaine County, Brown County, Nebraska

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 3, 5:45 PM CDTHail 0.75Brown, NE
Jul 3, 6:25 PM CDTHail 0.75Blaine, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
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

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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.

 MILLER

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, 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.