Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 11, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1993, 6:36 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1993, 6:36 PM MDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1993, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBFF 130036
TORVTN
NEC031-130115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE
ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE
636 PM MDT MON JUL 12 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
WESTERN CHERRY
AT 635 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN
IN WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH.
GIVE REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
KYLEWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 12, 5:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
NEZ006-012-016-017-130020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 525 PM MDT MON JUL 12 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM MDT OR MIDNIGHT CDT... NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA IS IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM MDT OR MIDNIGHT CDT. COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTAL INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE OGALLALA.. NORTH PLATTE..IMPERIAL..MCCOOK AND BROKEN BOW. AT 522 PM MDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 20 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF IMPERIAL TO 5 MILES WEST OF HAIGLER OR 80 MILES SOUTHWEST TO 95 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ABBAS
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 5:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
NEZ006-012-016-017-130020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FIRST PARAGRAPH... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 525 PM MDT MON JUL 12 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM MDT OR MIDNIGHT CDT... NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA IS IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM MDT OR MIDNIGHT CDT. COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE OGALLALA..NORTH PLATTE..IMPERIAL..MCCOOK AND BROKEN BOW. AT 522 PM MDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 20 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF IMPERIAL TO 5 MILES WEST OF HAIGLER OR 80 MILES SOUTHWEST TO 95 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ABBAS
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 6:00 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-130020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 600 PM MDT MON JUL 12 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 11 PM MDT OR MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 555 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF IMPERIAL TO 5 MILES WEST OF BENKELMAN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTOM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF IMPERIAL. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IMPERIAL AND BENKELMAN ARE 60 MILES SOUTHWEST AND 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. ABBAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 56 min |
| Jul 12, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 57 min |
| Jul 13, 1:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Madison | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 1:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boone | 32 min |
| Jul 13, 6:42 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Boyd, Knox | 3 hr |
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.