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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS North Platte, NE

October 5, 1994Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 1994, 11:57 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 5, 1994, 11:57 PM CDT (04:57 UTC)
Expired
Oct 6, 1994, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 248 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 656 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
656 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith, Lincoln, Perkins61 min
Oct 5, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes61 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.