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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS North Platte, NE

August 1, 1993Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1993, 4:44 AM CDT for Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 1993, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 1993, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 3718 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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, Aug 1, 12:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 11 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
Jul 31, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	45 min
Jul 31, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	60 min
Jul 31, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	31 min
Jul 31, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson	46 min
Jul 31, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, Thomas	34 min
Jul 31, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	28 min
Jul 31, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	42 min
Aug 1, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson	41 min
Aug 1, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	28 min
Aug 1, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	49 min
Aug 1, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	42 min
Aug 1, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	40 min
Aug 1, 5:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	37 min
Aug 1, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hitchcock, Red Willow	40 min
Aug 1, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	40 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.