Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1993, 12:23 AM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1993, 12:23 AM CDT (05:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1993, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frontier County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 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.
- 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, 2 hours 36 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, 2 hours 33 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
Special weather statement, May 28, 12:02 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-280600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1201 AM CDT FRI MAY 28 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 1200 AM CDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING 15 MILES SOUTH OF IMPERIAL AND 15 MILES EAST OF STOCKVILLE OR 75 MILES SOUTHWEST AND 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE A PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS LOCATED MAINLY TO THE SOUTHWEST OF A HYANNIS TO SUTHERLAND TO BRADY LINE. HYANNIS..SUTHERLAND AND BRADY ARE 75 MILES NORTHWEST.. 20 MILES WEST AND 15 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Red Willow | 61 min |
| May 28, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 33 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.