Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 1994, 7:55 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 1994, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 2081 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 040055 RRA SVRLBF NEC041-040200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 755 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHERN CUSTER COUNTY AT 750 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF ANSELMO IN CUSTER COUNTY WHICH IS ABOUT 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE COMMUNITY OF ANSELMO IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE zWARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. MONSON 0055Z
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, Sep 3, 4:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-069>071-032245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 445 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT (10 PM MDT) FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 430 PM CDT (330 MDT)...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 60 MILES WEST TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STRONGEST PART OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BIG SPRINGS IN DEUEL COUNTY WHICH IS 65 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRANT IN PERKINS COUNTY WITH IS 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. DALEY
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 5:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
NEZ005-040000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 445 PM MDT (545 PM CDT) SAT SEP 3 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM MDT / 11 PM CDT... AT 443 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF CHERRY COUNTY. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VALENTINE...TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF VALENTINE...TO 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT FOR CHERRY COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES OVER SOUTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM MDT / 700 PM CDT. EMANUEL
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 7:02 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
NEZ005-040100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 601 PM MDT (701 PM CDT) SAT SEP 3 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM MDT... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM MDT/730 PM CDT. AT 6 PM MDT/7 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN CHERRY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE 45 MILES SOUTH OF VALENTINE...OR JUST A FEW MILES EAST OF BROWNLEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS THROUGH 8 PM CDT. KYLE
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.