Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 14, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1992, 8:47 PM CDT for Colfax County, Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1992, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colfax County, NE, Platte County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 3614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 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 160147
TOROFK
NEC141-037-160230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
847 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NEBRASKA
PLATTE...COLFAX
AT 845 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED
TORNADOES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBUS. THE STORMS ARE MOVING
NORTH AT 25 MPH AND PERSONS IN PLATTE AND COLFAX COUNTY ARE IN
THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
ACT QUICKLY. TAKE SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF POSSIBLE. AVOID MWINDOWS.
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS OR
PILLOWS.
TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM FOR MOST OF EASTERN
NEBRASKA.
KLEFFMANWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 15, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-152130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 340 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11PM CDT... AT 340 PM CDT...A AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 55 MILES TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE WITH THE STRONGEST STORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA NEBRASKA. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..HAIL AND GUSTY SURFACE WIND AS THE SnTORMS MOVE ACROSS KEITH COUNTY. ACH
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 8:25 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-160200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 820 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 818 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ALL OF RED WILLOW AND FRONTIER COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE PRODUCING THE SEVERE WEATHER HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN ACROSS EAST FRONTIER COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF MOOREFIELD OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE AND 10 MILES EAST OF STOCKVILLE OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL BE PRODUCING SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MOST OF THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA HAVE CLEARED WITH NO MORE SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED. MONSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Red Willow | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Colfax | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Red Willow | 67 min |
| Jun 15, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Colfax, Platte | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 75 min |
| Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Boyd, Keya Paha | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 68 min |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 33 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.