Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1994, 12:43 AM MDT for Chase County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1994, 12:43 AM MDT (06:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1994, 1:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chase County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, Sep 6, 7:32 PM MDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
NEZ005-070230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 731 PM MDT (831 PM CDT) TUE SEP 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LINGERING ACROSS CHERRY COUNTY... AT 728 PM MDT (828 PM CDT)...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF CODY...OR ABOUT 40 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF MULLEN NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY OVER THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF CHANGING CONDITIONS DURING THIS EVENING AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO EFFECT THEIR AREA THROUGH 830 PM MDT (930 PM CDT). HORNE
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 8:29 PM MDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
NEZ005-070330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 829 PM MDT (929 PM CDT) TUE SEP 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY... AT 826 PM MDT (926 PM CDT)...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OPEN COUNTRY OF CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTH OF MERRITT DAM OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF MULLEN NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...HOWEVER THEY HAVE BEEN WEAKENING OVER PAST HOUR AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO DO SO. ALTHOUGH THESE STORMS ARE WEAKENING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL MAY STILL BE EXPERIENCED BY PERSONS IN CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM MDT (1030 PM CDT). HORNE
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 10:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-069>071-070525- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1124 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... A NARROW LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME QUITE STRONG... HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM 5 MILES TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELSIE OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. AT 1025 PM MDT THESE STORMS WERE CONTINUING TO INTENSIFY AS THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH 30 TO 40 MILE AN HOUR WINDS ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS MOVE TOWARD THE COMMUNITY OF ELSIE. RESIDENTS OF ELSIE...HAYES CENTER AND ALSO IMPERIAL SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. MONSON
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 10:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-069>071-070525- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1124 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... A NARROW LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME QUITE STRONG... HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM 5 MILES TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELSIE OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. AT 1025 PM MDT THESE STORMS WERE CONTINUING TO INTENSIFY AS THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH 30 TO 40 MILE AN HOUR WINDS ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS MOVE TOWARD THE COMMUNITY OF ELSIE. RESIDENTS OF ELSIE...HAYES CENTER AND ALSO IMPERIAL SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. MONSON
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 11:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
NEZ057>059-070615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1211 AM CDT (1111 PM MDT) WED SEP 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO INTENSIFY NEAR OGALLALA OR 46 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE. AT 1050 PM MDT OGALLALA REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL WITH WIND GUSTS FROM 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSCOE...PAXTON AND SUTHERLAND DURING THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STASSER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 6:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 40 min |
| Sep 6, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 38 min |
| Sep 6, 8:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 55 min |
| Sep 6, 8:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 57 min |
| Sep 6, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 1:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 1:33 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 57 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.