Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 9:24 PM MDT for Keith County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1994, 9:24 PM MDT (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1994, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Keith County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 2046 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBF 070324
SVRLBF
NEC135-101-070415-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
924 PM MDT WED JUL 6 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHEAST PERKINS...SOUTHEAST KEITH
...CORRECTION...TO CHANGE MCPERSON TO PERKINS COUNTY ON WARNING...
AT 905 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH
WEST OF PAXTON MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PAXTON IS 30
MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE.
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!!
THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE ZFLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS
AND UNDERPASSES. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
RCWhat 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, 8:19 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
NEZ005-070315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 818 PM MDT (918 PM CDT) WED JUL 6 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH FOR CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM MDT/MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 815 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD RAIN SHOWERS OVER CHERRY COUNTY WITH THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST PARTS OF THE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 40 MILES SOUTH OF VALENTINE...AND JUST A FEW MILES NORTH OF MULLEN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE ESPECIALLY OVER EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL THROUGH 915 PM MDT/1015 PM CDT. KYLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 8:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson, Thomas | 68 min |
| Jul 6, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, McPherson | 58 min |
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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.