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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS North Platte, NE

July 3, 1993Arthur County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1993, 1:57 PM MDT for Arthur County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1993, 1:57 PM MDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1993, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Arthur County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1993-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1993-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 254 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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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, Jul 3, 1:14 PM MDT, 43 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-032000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
115 PM MDT SAT JUL 3 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER LAKE MCCONAUGHY...

AT 1 PM MDT A COUPLE OF SMALL THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED OVER LAKE
MCCONAUGHY.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO GROW IN
SIZE AND INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST AND NORTHEAST.  GUSTY WINDS FROM
30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

CAMPERS AND BOATERS IN THE LAKE MCCONAUGHY AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR
POSSIBLE STRONG WINDS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALSO
PRODUCING NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.

MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND WEST
CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON AND SOME OF THESE MAY BECOME SEVERE.
RESIDENTS OF THE REGION AND MOTORISTS TRAVELING ACROSS THE REGION
SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED
TO YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION FOR CURRENT UPHDATES ON THE WEATHER.

MONSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 5:47 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKnox28 min
Jul 3, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan32 min
Jul 3, 3:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes34 min
Jul 3, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln40 min
Jul 3, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine63 min
Jul 3, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster35 min
Jul 3, 4:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup, Rock64 min
Jul 3, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier, Lincoln39 min
Jul 3, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier, Red Willow40 min
Jul 3, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHitchcock, Red Willow33 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.