Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 1993, 10:47 PM CDT for Colfax County, Stanton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1993, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1993, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colfax County, NE, Stanton County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1984 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KOFK 080347
FFWOFK
NEC037-167-080645-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
1047 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHERN COLFAX...SOUTHEAST STANTON
AT 1030 PM CDT THE EAST FORK OF MAPLE CREEK IN SOUTHEAST STANTON
AND NORTHERN COLFAX COUNTY WAS OUT ITS BANK JUST NORTH OF HOWELLS.
THIS AREA HAS RECEIVED 3 INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE LAST FEW HOURS.
OLD HIGHWAY 91 IS REPORTED TO BE UNDERWATER WITH MANY OTHER COUNTY
ALSO UNDERWATER.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT SATURDAY
NAME OF ISSUERWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, May 7, 5:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-072315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 515 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...LONE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPS OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 510 PM CDT A LONE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF BENKELMAN OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND KANSAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AND SHOULD JUST CATCH THE COMMUNITY OF BENKELMAN BEFORE MOVING OUT ONTO OPEN COUNTRY. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST INTO A MORE MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH`WEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD BE AWARE OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS WITH APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS. MONSON
Special weather statement, May 7, 6:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-080015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 545 PM MDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...LONE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES MOVING NORTH ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 535 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF IMPERIAL OR ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS INTENSIFIED A LITTLE AND IS LIKELY PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE JUST TO THE EAST OF IMPERIAL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WHICH HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA BY 615 PM MDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTHWESTV AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD BE AWARE OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS WITH THESE APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS. MONSON
Special weather statement, May 7, 7:47 PM CDT, 3 hours before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-080145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 648 PM MDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST CHASE COUNTY... AT 635 PM MDT A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS WEST CHASE COUNTY. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF IMPERIAL TO ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF IMPERIAL. THIS WOULD BE ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. MONSON
Special weather statement, May 7, 10:42 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-080645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1042 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHWARD ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 1045 PM CDT A 75 MILE WIDE AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION. THE WIDE AREA EXTENDED FROM HYANNIS AND MULLEN IN GRANT AND HOOKER COUNTIES...WHICH ARE ABOUT 70 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NE. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED SOUTHWARD THRU NORTH PLATTE AND CONTINUED SOUTH TO KANSAS-NEBRASKA STATE LINE WHERE THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL DURING THE PAST HOUR ..WERE LOCATED. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. RN
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boone | 40 min |
| May 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Antelope, Pierce | 49 min |
| May 7, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Colfax, Cuming | 39 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.