Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 15, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1992, 5:29 PM CDT for Brown County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1992, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KOFK 162229
TOROFK
NEC017-103-162300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
529 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHERN BROWN...KEYA PAHA
AT ABOUT 520 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 4 MILES SOUTH OF
AINSWORTH...OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VALENTINE. THE
TORNADO IS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. IF YOU LIVE NEAR AINSWORTH
JOHNSTOWN OR LONG PINE...TAKE COVER NOW. THE STORM WILL BE
MOVING INTO KEYA PAHA COUNTY BY 545 PM...NEAR THE COMMUNITIES
OF SPRINGVIEW AND BURTON..
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF POSSIBLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID
WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES...TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED
BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 11 PM CDT.
MILLERWhat 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 16, 1:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
NEC031-161800 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 12 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 AT 1155 AM CDT...A THUNDERSHOWER HAD DEVELOPED 5 MILES SOUTH OF NENZEL OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE. THE THUNDERSTORM HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BURNS
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
NEC031-161800 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE 145 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 AT 140 PM CDT...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS IN THE VICINITY OF KILGORE HAD MOVED ACROSS THE SOUTH DbAKOTA BORDER ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF VALENTINE...NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THIS STORM. BURNS
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:39 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-162215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 430 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 425 PM CDT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF MULLEN OR ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE. SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT HEADS TOWARDS OPEN COUNTRY. OTHER WEAK THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS KEITH COUNTY JUST EAST OF OGALLALA OR ABOUT 45 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. 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 15, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Colfax, Platte | 43 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, 5:52 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.