Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1994, 7:22 PM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1994, 7:22 PM MDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1994, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS1 KLBF 040122 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC075-040215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
722 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
CENTRAL AND EASTERN GRANT
AT 715 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR FROM
HYANNIS TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF HYANNIS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25
MILES AN HOUR. THE GRANT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED MARBLE SIZED
HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR IN HYANNIS WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.
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.
REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE CAN BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
SCWhat 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 3, 6:21 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
NEZ023-035-057-069-040125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 722 PM CDT (622 PM MDT) SUN JUL 3 1994 AT 615 PM MDT RADAR REVEALED AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF ARTHUR...OR ABOUT 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE... AND ABOUT 25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF ARTHUR...OR ABOUT 70 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE PASSING ACROSS OPEN COUNTY OVER SOUTHERN GRANT AND SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ARTHUR COUNTIES BY 700 PM MDT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINS. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTAL CHASE COUNTY...AND COULD AFFECT THE COMMUNITY OF IMPERIAL BY 715 PM pMDT. SC
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:22 PM MDT, 1 hour before
NEZ005-050130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE
ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF
622 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CHERRY COUNTY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM MDT
(2 AM CDT)...
AT 621 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A FEW AREAS OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
THE CENTRAL PART OF CHERRY COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED
30 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN NEBRASKA OR 55 MILES WEST OF BROWNLEE MOVING
EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL
WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITH THE STORMS OVER CHERRY COUNTY THROUGH 730 PM
MDT (830 PM CDT)
EASTLACKSpecial weather statement, Jul 3, 6:24 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
NEZ023-035-057-069-040125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 722 PM CDT (622 PM MDT) SUN JUL 3 1994 AT 615 PM MDT RADAR REVEALED AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF ARTHUR...OR ABOUT 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE... AND ABOUT 25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF ARTHUR...OR ABOUT 70 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE PASSING ACROSS OPEN COUNTY OVER SOUTHERN GRANT AND SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ARTHUR COUNTIES BY 700 PM MDT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINS. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL CHASE COUNTY...AND COULD AFFECT THE COMMUNITY OF ~IMPERIAL BY 715 PM MDT. SC
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 7:16 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
NEZ023-035-057-069-040225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 815 PM CDT (715 PM MDT) SUN JUL 3 1994 AT 715 PM MDT A 25 MILE WIDE AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF HYANNIS .OR ABOUT 45 MILES EAST OF ALLIANCE NE... OR ABOUT 70 NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE PASSING ACROSS OPEN COUNTY OVER SOUTHERN GRANT AND SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ARTHUR COUNTIES. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMSS WILL BE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINS. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL CHASE COUNTY...AND COULD AFFECT THE COMMUNITY OF IMPERIAL. RN
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.