Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1993, 4:53 PM MDT for Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1993, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1993, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perkins County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
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, Jul 8, 4:17 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 415 PM MDT THU JUL 8 1993 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SOON MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 414 PM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VENANGO AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS ABOUT 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM COULD CAUSE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTH PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTY B|ETWEEN 415 AND 615 MDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. RC
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 4:20 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 415 PM MDT THU JUL 8 1993 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SOON MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 414 PM MDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VENANGO AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS ABOUT 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM COULD CAUSE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTH PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTY BETWEEN 415 AND 615 MDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. RC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Stanton | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cuming | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 5:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.