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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS North Platte, NE

May 22, 1993Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1993, 6:58 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 1993, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 22, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

NEZ012-016220515-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
210 PM MDT SAT MAY 22 1993

...TORNADO WATCH EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR PERKINS...CHASE...DUNDY
...HAYES...AND HITCHCOCK COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA...

AT 205 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN ARTHUR
AND WESTERN KEITH COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA...STORMS WERE MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.  STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY
RAINFALL AND S6TRONG WINDS...ALSO STORMS ARE 60 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF
NORTH PLATTE.

THUNDERSTORMS COULD STILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS
AND LIGHTNING.

JER

Special weather statement, May 22, 3:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

NEZ012-016-222135-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
210 PM MDT SAT MAY 22 1993

...TORNADO WATCH EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR PERKINS...CHASE...DUNDY
...HAYES...AND HITCHCOCK COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA...

AT 205 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN ARTHUR
AND WESTERN KEITH COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA...STORMS WERE MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.  STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY
RAINFALL AND @STRONG WINDS...ALSO STORMS ARE 60 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF
NORTH PLATTE.

THUNDERSTORMS COULD STILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS
AND LIGHTNING.

JER

Special weather statement, May 22, 4:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

NEZ006-007-012-016-017-222240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
435 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1993

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT OR 10 PM CDT
   FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

AT 425 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
ALONG WITH POSSIBLE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL LOCATED ABOUT
20 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE.  ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF SUTHERLAND...
WITH YET ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF VENANGO.
VENANGO IS LOCATED ABOUT 60 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTH
OF NORTH PLATTE TO 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE.  MOVEMENT
WAS TO THE EAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR.
>
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAIN IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME...AS WELL AS DAMAGING WINDS...
AND LARGE HAIL.  IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA SEEK
SHELTER.

SC

Special weather statement, May 22, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 6:12 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 10:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Colfax, Stanton	3 hr
May 22, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	36 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.