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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS North Platte, NE

June 12, 1994Frontier County, Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1994, 5:40 PM CDT for Frontier County, Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1994, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1994, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 68 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1994-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1812 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1994-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1812 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1469 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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
Jun 12, 3:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKnox37 min
Jun 12, 4:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd, Holt66 min
Jun 12, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFAntelope21 min
Jun 12, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln29 min
Jun 12, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln37 min
Jun 12, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFPierce33 min
Jun 12, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier30 min
Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster45 min
Jun 12, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFPierce, Wayne35 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.