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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS North Platte, NE

July 1, 1994Cuming County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1994, 3:29 PM CDT for Cuming County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 1994, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Cuming County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1691 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1310 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KOFK 012030 RRA
SVROFK
NEC037-141-039-119-167-012115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
329 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHERN COLFAX COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN PLATTE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...CUMING COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY
   ...STANTON COUNTY
 
AT 325 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE LOCATED 15
MILES SOUTH OF NORFOLK...OR JUST SOUTH OF MADISON. THE OTHER WAS LOCATED
20 MILES EAST OF NORFOLK...NEAR WISNER. THESE TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND EVERYONE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF MADISON ...HUMPHREY ...CRESTON
...LEIGH...WISNER...BEEMER AND WEST POINT.
 
IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING.  REMAIN
INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.  TAKE SHELTER
IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
 
BOWMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cedar, Knox	55 min
Jul 1, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Madison, Platte	41 min
Jul 1, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton	46 min
Jul 1, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	27 min
Jul 1, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	52 min
Jul 1, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Thomas	32 min
Jul 1, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan, McPherson	53 min
Jul 1, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope, Garfield, Holt, Knox, Wheeler	49 min
Jul 1, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	68 min
Jul 1, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Wayne	60 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.