Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 1993, 6:18 PM MDT for Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1993, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1993, 6:38 PM MDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hooker County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 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 3, 1:14 PM MDT, 5 hours 4 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
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:17 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
NEZ002-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 217 PM MDT SAT JUL 3 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR CHERRY COUNTY... AS OF 313 PM CDT THERE WAS NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ANYWHERE OVER CHERRY COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED TO THE SOUTH OF CHERRY COUNTY ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF MULLEN NEBRASKA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO CHERRY COUNTY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR CHERRY COUNTY. RESIDENTS OF CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. EMANUEL
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:46 PM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 345 PM CDT SAT JUL 3 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 340 PM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRYON OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND IS LIKELY PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL ALONDG WITH WINDS FROM 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF TRYON SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER. MONSON
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:03 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 403 PM CDT SAT JUL 3 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 357 PM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRYON MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM IN THE COMMUNITY OF TRYON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY AND TOWARDS THE COMMUNITY OF STAPLETON. RESIDENTS OF STAPLETON SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER AS THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. MONSON
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:21 PM MDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
NEZ002-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 321 PM MDT SAT JUL 3 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR CHERRY COUNTY... AT 419 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THAT A THUNDERSTORM HAD FORMED OVER THE EASTERN PART OF CHERRY COUNTY ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE. IT WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM FORMATION OVER MAINLY EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM CDT. RESIDENTS OF VALENTINE AND MUCH OF EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. EMANUEL
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 615 PM CDT SAT JUL 3 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...THOMAS ...LOGAN...LINCOLN...HAYES...FRONTIER...HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW... AT 605 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME INTENSE...EXTENDED SOUTHWEST FROM ANSELMO ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE TO NORTH PLATTE TO STRATTON ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL WERE IN THE ANSELMO AREA AND ALSO JUST EAST OF HAYES CENTER. THESE TWO THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR WITH THE STORM IN THE ANSELMO AREA MOVING ACROSS THE COMMUNITY OF ANSELMO. MONSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 6:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 28 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.