Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1993, 6:06 PM CDT for Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1993, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Keya Paha County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 23, 4:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
NEZ002-232230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 328 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM MDT... AT 325 PM MDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 60 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE TO 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE...OR FROM MERRIMAN TO 35 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN NEBRASKA IN WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DANGERIOUS LIGHTING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS OVER WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM MDT. KIRK : *2:T#r~v_^UJ
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-232215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 353 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT OR 11 PM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 350 PM MDT...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING WITHIN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. HOWEVER..EXTREMELY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO WESTERN GRANT COUNTY FROM THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE BETWEEN 4 AND 415 PM MDT. PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA..ESPECIALLY THOSE IN GRANT COUNTY...SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANTS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS..AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. ABBAS
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-232215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 353 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT OR 11 PM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 350 PM MDT...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING WITHIN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. HOWEVER..EXTREMELY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO WESTERN GRANT COUNTY FROM THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE BETWEEN 4 AND 415 PM MDT. PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA..ESPECIALLY THOSE IN GRANT COUNTY...SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REMEM`BER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS..AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. ABBAS
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:21 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-232315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 418 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 416 PM MDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 5 TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHBY OR 80 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. PERSONS IN THE REGION SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 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.