Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1993, 8:06 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1993, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1993, 8:45 PM 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, 1.1 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
- 2851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1404 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 270112 COR SVRLBF NEC041-270130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 806 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY AT 805 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF OCONTO OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO( AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. ABBAS
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 26, 7:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
NEZ007-016-017-260200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 700 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL OCCURRING OVER CUSTER COUNTY... AT 655 PM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF ARNOLD AND NEAR CALLAWAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN CHASE..DUNDY..HAYES..HITCHCOCK ..FRONTIER AND RED WILLOW< COUNTIES WHICH ARE IN A TORNADO WATCH. ABBAS
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.