Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1994, 4:13 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1994, 4:13 PM MDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1994, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Keith 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 89 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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, Jun 8, 2:27 PM MDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>037-057>059-082125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 326 PM CDT (226 PM MDT) WED JUN 8 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM CDT ( 8 PM MDT ) THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE ONLY COUNTIES IN THE NORTH PLATTE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE CHASE...HAYES...FRONTIER AND CUSTER. AS OF 330 PM CDT NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN THE WATCH AREA OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AND WILL BE APPROACHING GRANT AND ARTHUR COUNTIES BY 430 PM CDT. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFOR.MATION. MONSON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:45 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>037-057>059-082245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 444 PM CDT (344 PM MDT) WED JUN 8 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM CDT ( 8 PM MDT ) THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE ONLY COUNTIES IN THE NORTH PLATTE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE CHASE...HAYES...FRONTIER AND CUSTER. AT 440 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO WESTERN GRANT...ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH SOME VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF WESTERN KEITH COUNTY SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY WATCHFUL OF AN APPROACHING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN GARDEN COUNTY. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MONSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 9:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 2:24 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 66 min |
| Jun 8, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.