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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS North Platte, NE

August 29, 1993Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1993, 6:14 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 29, 1993, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Custer County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 280 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1993-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 350 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1993-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCedar, Pierce32 min

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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.