Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1994, 5:14 PM CDT for Custer County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1994, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1994, 6:09 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Custer County, NE, Lincoln County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 470 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 9, 4:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-069>071-092210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 407 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA: HOOKER LOGAN MCPHERSON THOMAS CUSTER FRONTIER HAYES LINCOLN AT 400 PM CDT (3 PM MDT) RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL...WHICH WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF HAYES CENTER...OR 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. IF THE THUNDERSTORM MAINTAINS INTEGRITY IT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY...NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF WELLFLEET...AROUND 515 PM CDT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. SC
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 4:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-069>071-092210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 407 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA: HOOKER LOGAN MCPHERSON THOMAS CUSTER FRONTIER HAYES LINCOLN AT 400 PM CDT (3 PM MDT) RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL...WHICH WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF HAYES CENTER...OR 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. IF THE THUNDERSTORM MAINTAINS INTEGRITY IT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY...NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF WELLFLEET...AROUND 515 PM CDT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. SC
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 4:31 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
NEZ005-092230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 429 PM CDT (329 PM MDT) TUE AUG 9 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)... AT 428 PM CDT (328 PM MDT)...RADAR INDICATED NO SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WITHIN CHERRY COUNTY...HOWEVER...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR CONSIDERABLE STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THIS EVENING. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. HORNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 27 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.