Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 5:02 PM MDT for Grant County, Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1994, 5:02 PM MDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1994, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 062303 SVRLBF NEC075-091-070000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 602 PM CDT (502 PM MDT) WED JUL 6 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 LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EASTERN GRANT COUNTY...HOOKER COUNTY AT 457 PM MDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITMAN TO 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF WHITMAN OR ABOUT 50 TO 60 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. MULLEN IS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNINGS FOR EASTERN GRANT AND WESTERN HOOKER COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WAPRNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. FAUCETTE
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 6, 1:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
NEZ023-035-057-062030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 227 PM CDT (127 PM MDT) WED JUL 6 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR GRANT...ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES TIL 800 PM MDT... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT...ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM MDT. AT 120 PM MDT NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING WITHIN THE AREA. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. FAUCETTE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 2:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
NEZ023-035-057-062135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 334 PM CDT (234 PM MDT) WED JUL 6 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR GRANT...ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES TIL 800 PM MDT... AT 230 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS DEVELOPING ACROSS EASTERN GRANT COUNTY. THE DEVELOPMENT WAS TAKING PLACE 7 MILES SOUTH OF WHITMAN OR ABOUT 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BEGIN DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STlATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. FAUCETTE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
NEZ023-035-057-062215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 413 PM CDT (313 PM MDT) WED JUL 6 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR GRANT...ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES TIL 800 PM MDT... AT 305 PM MDT (405 PM CDT) RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS GRANT COUNTY. AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM 70 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEAR WHITMAN TO 85 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE IN WESTERN GRANT COUNTY. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HYANNIS OR ABOUT 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALENTINE. ALL OF THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. FAUCETTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boone | 68 min |
| Jul 5, 9:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cuming | 52 min |
| Jul 5, 11:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boone, Platte | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 73 min |
| Jul 6, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 69 min |
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.