Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1993, 11:51 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1993, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1993, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 3592 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1148 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
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, Jun 12, 6:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-130140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 640 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 1993 ...TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS EVENING... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA INCLUDING KEITH..LINCOLN..PERKINS..HAYES..CHASE..FRONTIER..DUNDY..HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM CDT. ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA INCLUDING GRANT..HOOKER..LOGAN..ARTHUR..MCPHERSON..THOMAS AND CUSTER COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. AT 638 PM CDT...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING WITHIN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. HOWEVER..THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN THE PANHANDLE AND IF THEY CONTINUE MOVING EAST THEY WILL ENTER THE WESTERN PART OF THE REGION BETWEEN OGALLALA AND HYANNIS AROUND 830 PM CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP RAPIDLY WITHIN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERSONS SHOULDZ ALSO BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. ABBAS
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
NEZ002-130115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 611 PM MDT SAT JUN 12 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH 423 IN EFFECT FOR CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 710 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES EAST OF MERRIMAN OR 45 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN OR 85 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 35 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN OR 70 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE IN CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DANGERIOUS LIGHTING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT. SALMONS
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-130140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 735 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 1993 ...TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS EVENING... A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF OGALLALA..NORTH PLATTE.. IMPERIAL AND MCCOOK. ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF HYANNIS..MULLEN..TRYON..STAPLETON AND BROKEN BOW. AT 732 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE WAS APPROACHING WESTERN GRANT COUNTY AND THE COMMUNITY OF ASHBY. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL..GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHEN IT MOVES INTO AND THROUGH GRANT COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. < OTHER THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE OUT OF THE PANHANDLE AND INTO ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES AROUND 830 PM CDT. PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THEY SHOULD ALSO BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 71 min |
| Jun 12, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 36 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.