Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1994, 5:59 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1994, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1994, 6:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Aug 7, 5:49 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:49 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-072350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 550 PM CDT (450 PM MDT) SUN AUG 7 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT EXCEPT FOR CHASE...HAYES AND FRONTIER COUNTIES... VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE PANHANDLE JUST WEST OF GRANT COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF ASHBY. ASHBY IS ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF ALLIANCE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE ASHBY...HYANNIS AND WHITMAN AREAS BEFORE 530 PM MDT. RESIDENTS OF THESE COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. MONSON . WSCA ^6WWUS WWUSd WWUS& :a`WWUS xP+FWUS $WWUS* f6WWUSN T!'WWUS PFTUS" ;( WUUS 4 `WWUS yWWUS $y`WWUS A`WWUS ||| FWWUS WWUS> 0qWWUS Rvk#FXUS 6WWUSj FXUS08 KLBB 072247B 072247 AGFLBB WEST TEXAS/OKLA P ?6WWUS RECAST NATIONA7q4WSUS K TX 543 PM CD+6WWUS 0XWSUS OW PRESSURE TROFENDING FROM THE ANDLES TO SOUTT TEXAS WILL MOVTTLE THROUGH THEIOD. AN UPPER L.NWWCA h+yq`WWUS ' `WWUS 3U^WSUS L2x6WWUS hAS WEATHER THROUHE PERIOD... PRONG GENERALLY FSKIES AND LITTLENO RAINFALL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 25 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.