Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1994, 1:19 PM MDT for Grant County, Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1994, 1:19 PM MDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1994, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS1 KLBF 221919 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC075-091-222015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
119 PM MDT WED JUN 22 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
WESTERN GRANT...HOOKER
AT 1 PM MDT THE GRANT COUNTY SHERIFF AT HYANNIS REPORTED 55 MILE AN
HOUR WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AT HYANNIS...75 MILES NORTHWEST OF
NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM WILL BE IN THE WHITMAN AREA BY 120 PM MDT
AND IN THE MULLEN AREA BY 200 PM MDT. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...
STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS. MOVE INDOOR IF POSSIBLE. WHEN
INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING
TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.
POWER 1918What 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 22, 12:53 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
NEZ023-221945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 152 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 AT 140 PM CDT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL HAD MOVED INTO NORTHWEST GRANT COUNTY...80 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF ASHBY...HYANNIS AND WHITMAN UNTIL 3PM CDT OR 2PM MDT. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AS IT PASSES. POWER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jun 22, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 36 min |
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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.