Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1994, 5:32 PM MDT for Chase County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1994, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1994, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chase County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KLBF 222332 RRA SVRLBF NEC029-230000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 632 PM CDT (532 PM MDT) SUN MAY 22 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT (600 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ...CHASE COUNTY AT 530 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR IMPERIAL OR ABOUT 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THIS STORM HAS SHOWN LITTLE MOVEMENT. THE COMMUNITY OF IMPERIAL IS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM WHICH MAY PRODUCE STREET FLOODING ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL. 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. MONSON 2332Z
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 22, 5:19 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
NEZ069-070-230015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 617 PM CDT (517 PM MDT) SUN MAY 22 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE IMPERIAL AREA... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER IMPERIAL AND JUST TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF IMPERIAL. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT HAS SHOWN VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. ALONG WITH THE HEAVY R NSMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IMPERIAL IS ABOU"T 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. RESIDENTS OF IMPERIAL SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY. SOME STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN TOWN ALONG WITH DEADLY LIGHTNING. MONSON
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:22 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
NEZ069-070-230015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 617 PM CDT (517 PM MDT) SUN MAY 22 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE IMPERIAL AREA... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER IMPERIAL AND JUST TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF IMPERIAL. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT HAS SHOWN VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAIN SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IMPERIAL IS ABOUT *55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. RESIDENTS OF IMPERIAL SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY. SOME STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN TOWN ALONG WITH DEADLY LIGHTNING. MONSON
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.