Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1994, 6:12 PM MDT for Chase County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1994, 6:12 PM MDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1994, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 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 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 1619 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS1 KLBF 230012 RRA
SVRLBF
NEC029-230100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
612 PM MDT SUN MAY 22 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CHASE
AT 610 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF IMPERIAL OR ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE.
THIS STORM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY NORTH NORTHEAST AND IS LIKELY
PRODUCING SOME STREET FLOODING ALONG WITH SOME LARGE HAIL.
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.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!
MONSON 0011ZWhat 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, 53 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, 50 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
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:55 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
NEZ005-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 555 PM MDT SUN MAY 22 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO CHERRY COUNTY... AT 553 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE WESTERN PART OF CHERRY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE 50 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. KYLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 5:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Grant | 38 min |
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.