Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1994, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hayes County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 032216 RRA SVRLBF NEC085-032300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 515 PM CDT TUE MAY 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...NORTHWESTERN HAYES COUNTY AT 512 PM CDT RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF HAYES CENTER. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH OPEN COUNTRY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, May 3, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-069>071-079>081-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 158 PM MDT MON MAY 3 1994 ...A FEW SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES... AT 155 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SMALL AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH HAD BEGUN MOVING INTO WESTERN ARTHUR AND WESTERN KEITH COUNTIES. THIS AREA WAS ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE... AND EXTENDED FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...TO 110 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. A THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED IN THE EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF KEITH COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA. D ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES EAST OF BIG SPRINGS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SC
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-069>071-079>081-032210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 250 PM MDT MON MAY 3 1994 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MARCHING EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN ARTHUR AND CENTRAL KEITH COUNTIES... AT 245 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 45 MILES NORTHWEST TO 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS AREA WAS ABOUT 15 MILES WIDE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WERE JUST NORTH OF KEYSTONE...AND FROM OGALLALA TO BRULE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS WERE JUST WEST OF IMPERIAL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SC
Special weather statement, May 3, 4:32 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>038-057>059-069>071-079>081-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 430 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1994 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ADVANCING INTO WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 420 PM CDT RADAR REVEALED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE LOCATED 20 MILES TO EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...TO 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WERE 20 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE...NEAR SUTHERLAND. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...NEAR IMPERIAL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. SC
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.