Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 6, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1993, 6:20 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1993, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 082321 TORLBF NEC111-082345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 620 PM CDT THU JUL 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 615 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF WALLACE OR 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WALLACE AND DICKENS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT,...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. ABBAS
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 8, 5:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 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, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 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, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Stanton | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cuming | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 44 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.