Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1994, 7:26 PM CDT for Colfax County, Cuming County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1994, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1994, 8:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 2003 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 17.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KOFK 020028 RRA SVROFK NEC037-039-020130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 726 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA ...CUMING COUNTY AT 725 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF NORFOLK TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORFOLK...OR FROM PILGER TO LEIGH. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WINDS TO 70 MPH. THE TOWNS OF WISNER...BEEMER...AND HOWELLS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. CB
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, Jul 1, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
NEZ005-020215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 518 PM MDT (618 PM CDT) FRI JUL 1 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INCLUDING CHERRY COUNTY. ALTHOUGH NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED ON RADAR...RESIDENTS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILTY OF THREATENING WEATHER IN THEIR AREA AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER THROUGH 9 PM CDT. RENZ
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.