Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS North Platte, NE

June 25, 1994Cuming County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1994, 8:08 PM CDT for Cuming County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 1994, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Cuming County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 665 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KOFK 260111 RRA
SVROFK
NEC039-260145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
808 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN CUMING COUNTY
 
AT 808 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER PENDER OR 40 MILES EAST
OF NORFOLK. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND HAS PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL. THE TOWN OF BANCROFT IS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PEOPLE IN
THIS AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST NEBRASKA UNTIL 11PM CDT...
 
MML

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.