Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 1993, 8:42 PM CDT for Cuming County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1993, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1993, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cuming County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 3257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.3
- Supercell composite
- 27.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOFK 090142 FFWOFK NEC039-090445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 842 PM CDT THU JUL 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA ...CUMING COUNTY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED DURING THE EARLY EVENING CAUSED THE ELKHORN AND ITS TRIBUTARIES TO RUN BANKFULL WITH SOME OVERFLOWS OCCURRING IN FIELDS NEAR WEST POINT. LOGAN CREEK EAST OF BANCROFT WAS FLOWING ACROSS HIGHWAYS 51 AND 16. THE ELKHORN RIVER AT WEST POINT ROSE 1.3 FEET IN LESS THAN AN HOUR AND WAS STILL RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IDS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. SMITH &
What 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, Jul 8, 5:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 415 PM MDT THU JUL 8 1993 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SOON MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 414 PM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VENANGO AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS ABOUT 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM COULD CAUSE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTH PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTY B|ETWEEN 415 AND 615 MDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. RC
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 415 PM MDT THU JUL 8 1993 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SOON MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 414 PM MDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VENANGO AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS ABOUT 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM COULD CAUSE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTH PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTY BETWEEN 415 AND 615 MDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. RC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 26 min |
| Jul 8, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boone, Madison, Platte | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Colfax | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Cuming | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Boone | 3 hr |
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.