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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS North Platte, NE

July 7, 1992Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1992, 8:06 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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 7, 1992, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Red Willow County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 7, 8:15 PM CDT	Hail 4	Red Willow, 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 2790 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1394 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 13.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 080106
SVRLBF
NEC145-080215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
806 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
      SOUTHERN AND EASTERN RED-WILLOW

AT 800 PM CDT GOLFBALL TO TENNIS BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED
BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF DANBURY AND MARION...WITH HALF INCH HAIL
BETWEEN LEBANON AND DANBURY.  THESE TOWNS ARE 66 TO 70 MILES
SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE.  THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
THIS HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNINmG SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!

REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE CAN BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

 SC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Red Willow	57 min
Jul 7, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	49 min
Jul 7, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wheeler	38 min
Jul 7, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cedar	41 min

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.