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Tornado Warning 24, NWS North Platte, NE

August 4, 1992Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 1992, 9:17 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 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: Aug 4, 1992, 9:17 PM CDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Frontier County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 4, 9:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Frontier, 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 1198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 050218
TORLBF
NEC063-050245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
917 PM CDT TUE AUG 4 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHERN FRONTIER COUNTY
 
AT 913 PM CDT RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF
STOCKVILLE. STOCKVILLE IS LOCATED 40 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF NORTH
PLATTE.  THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE APPARENT TORNADO WAS MOVING
SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
 
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.

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, Aug 4, 4:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

NEZ006-007-012-016-017-042210-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
420 PM CDT TUE AUG 4 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR
   HOOKER..LOGAN..THOMAS AND CUSTER COUNTIES...

AT 418 PM CDT...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING WITHIN SOUTHWEST
OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA.  HOWEVER..THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. A FEW OF
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS..ESPECIALLY IN THE
WATCH AREA.

PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA..ESPECIALLY THOSE
IN HOOKER..THOMAS..LOGAN AND CUSTER COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR NOAA
WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

ABBAS

Local storm report, Aug 4, 6:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

NE002-042330-

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE
620 PM CDT TUE AUG 4 1992

SELS MKC OMA A VTN

STORM REPORT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 4 1992...

TIME
550  PM CDT   A CITIZEN REPOQRTED 3/4 INCH HAIL 35 MILES SOUTH
              OF VALENTINE OVER SOUTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY.
              SEVERAL WINDOWS WERE BROKEN BY THE HAIL.

BURNS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	32 min
Aug 4, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	54 min
Aug 4, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	43 min
Aug 4, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Red Willow	33 min
Aug 4, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Red Willow	30 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1992 Every tornado warning in 1992 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.