Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 20, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 1992, 5:42 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1992, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 182244 TORLBF NEC041-182315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 542 PM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY AT 537 PM CDT...A TORNDAO WAS REPORTED 4 MILES WEST OF CALLAWAY OR 50 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE TORNDAO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN OCONTO AND CALLAWAY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMMEDIATELY. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARILER FOR CUSTER COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. WALAWENDER 2243Z
What 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, Jul 18, 4:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-017-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 401 PM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 355 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES NORTH OF THEDFORD...OR 55 MILES NORTH OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THEDFORD BY 410 PM CDT AND THE HALSEY FOREST BY 445 PM CDT. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD SEEK REINFORCED SHELTER AS PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL...40 TO 50 MILE AN HOUR WINDS... VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. WALAWEN]DER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 33 min |
| Jul 18, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 69 min |
| Jul 18, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 54 min |
| Jul 18, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hitchcock | 40 min |
| Jul 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.