Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1993, 10:14 PM CDT for Frontier County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1993, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1993, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Frontier County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 837 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 27, 9:47 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-280540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 947 PM CDT THU MAY 27 1993 ...PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN THE MCCOOK AREA... PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE MCCOOK AREA AT 940PM CDT. A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING OVER THE MCCOOK AREA FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. THIS AREA OF STORMS COULD CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST THROUGH THE MCCOOK A ND INDIANOLA AREA AND ON NORTHEAST THROUGH FRONTIER COOUNTY BETWEEN 945 AND 11PM CDT. RC
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:50 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-280540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION ON DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 947 PM CDT THU MAY 27 1993 ...PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN THE MCCOOK AREA... PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE MCCOOK AREA AT 940PM CDT. A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING OVER THE MCCOOK AREA FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. THIS AREA OF STORMS COULD CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL A:S IT MOVES NORTHEAST THROUGH THE MCCOOK AND INDIANOLA AREA AND ON NORTHEAST THROUGH FRONTIER COOUNTY BETWEEN 945 AND 11PM CDT. RC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 37 min |
| May 28, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1993Every 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.