Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1992, 8:57 PM MDT for Arthur County, McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1992, 8:57 PM MDT (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1992, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Arthur County, NE, McPherson County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 2185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 070300 SVRLBF NEC005-117-070330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 957 PM CDT (857 PM MDT) MON JUL 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT (930 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY...WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY AT 854 PM MDT OR 954 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF ARTHUR OR 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWN OF ARTHUR IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. ABBAS
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 6, 4:05 PM MDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
NEZ006-012-062205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 505 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1992 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA... AT 5 PM CDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENTERED AN AREA IN EXTREME NORTHWEST KEITH COUNTY AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ARTHUR COUNTY IN NEBRASKA. THOSE LOCATIONS WERE ABOUT 60 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WIND ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE NEAREST LARGE COMMUNITY NEAR THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LEMOYNE NE WHICH IS ABOUT 55 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. RN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:28 PM MDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
NEZ006-012-062328- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 628 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTILL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEBRASKA... AT 625 PM CDT...A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENTERED AN AREA IN EXTREME NORTHWEST KEITH COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GRANT AND NORTHWEST HOOKER COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA. THOSE LOCATIONS WERE ABOUT 60 MILES NORTH WEST OF NORTH PLATTE NE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WIND ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS SOMETIME DO PRODUCE TORNADOS. THE NEAREST LARGE COMMUNITIES NEAR THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LEMOYNE NE WHICH IS ABOUT 55 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE..AND WHITMAN AND MULLEN NEBRASKA ABOUT 55 MILES NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NE. RN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
NEZ006-012-070005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 705 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTILL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEBRASKA... AT 7 PM CDT...A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL ARTHUR AND NORTHERN GRANT AND NORTHWEST HOOKER COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA. THE ARTHUR COUNTY THUNDERSTORM IS ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH WEST OF NORTH PLATTE NE. THE GRANT AND HOOKER COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WIND ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE NEAREST LARGE COMM1UNITIES NEAR THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ARTHUR NE WHICH IS ABOUT 55 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE..AND HYANNIS AND MULLEN NEBRASKA ABOUT 55 MILES NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NE. RN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 7:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-070200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 805 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 802 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED NO RAIN WITHIN SOUTHWEST OR WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. HOWEVER..A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED TO THE NORTHWEST OF BINGHAM IN SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY BRUSH THE NORTHERN PART OF GRANT COUNTY NEAR AND TO THE NORTH OF ASHBY AND HYANNIS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ASHBY AND HYANNIS ARE ABOUT 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. PERSONS WITHIN THE WATCH AREA..ESPECIALLY IN NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY.. SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 9:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 65 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.