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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS North Platte, NE

July 5, 1992Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1992, 2:11 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 1992, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1992, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 15 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -429 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 380 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 KLBF 051913
SVRLBF
NEC111-052000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
211 PM CDT SUN JUL 5 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 110 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF
NORTH PLATTE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD HIT NORTH
PLATTE AROUND 235 PM CDT.
 
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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

Local storm report, Jul 5, 9:06 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
905 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 1992

...SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FROM JULY 5 1992...

TIME           LOCATION                 EVENT

600 AM CDT     TRYON                   45 MPH WINDS
655 AM CDT     MAXWELL                 45 MPH WINDS
657 AM CDT     LBF                     45 MPH WINDS
732 AM CDT     TRYON                   MARBLE SIZED HAIL
                                       50 MPH WINDS
745 AM CDT     10 W STAPLETON          GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
                                       WINDOWS BROKEN
748 AM CDT     5 W STAPLETON           DIME SIZED HAIL
759 AM CDT     14 N NORTH PLATTE       MARBLE SIZED HAIL
836 AM CDT     BRADY                   40-50 MPH WINDS

WALAWENDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	26 min
Jul 4, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant, Hooker	29 min
Jul 4, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	26 min
Jul 4, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Red Willow	35 min
Jul 5, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha	36 min
Jul 5, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	63 min
Jul 5, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	49 min
Jul 5, 6:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	41 min
Jul 5, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1992 Every 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.