Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1994, 5:06 PM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1994, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1994, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 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 12:00Z, 11.1 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 122308 RRA SVRLBF NEC075-130000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 606 PM CDT (506 PM MDT) TUE JUL 12 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 WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...WESTERN GRANT COUNTY AT 505 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF ASHBY MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ASHBY IS ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF ALLIANCE. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. MONSON 2307Z
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 12, 2:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>037-057>059-122135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 335 PM CDT (235 PM MDT) TUE JUL 12 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 900 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT...HOOKER...THOMAS ...ARTHUR...MCPHERSON...LOGAN...KEITH...LINCOLN AND PERKINS COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT (8 PM MDT). AT 330 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ACROSS THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN THE PANHANDLE AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO ARTHUR AND KEITH COUNTIES BY 430 PM CDT. 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 12, 3:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>037-057>059-122240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 438 PM CDT (338 PM MDT) TUE JUL 12 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 900 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT...HOOKER...THOMAS ...ARTHUR...MCPHERSON...LOGAN...KEITH...LINCOLN AND PERKINS COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT (8 PM MDT). AT 430 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KEITH COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST WEST OF THE KEITH/GARDEN COUNTY LINE AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. THE STORMS STRETCHED FROM 70 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA TO 75 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 28 MILES WEST OF OGALLALA. THESE STORMS LIKELY WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY INTO WESTERN KEITH COUNTRY BY 300 PM MDT. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THU<NDERHEADS...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 12, 3:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>037-057>059-122240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TYPO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 438 PM CDT (338 PM MDT) TUE JUL 12 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 900 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT...HOOKER...THOMAS ...ARTHUR...MCPHERSON...LOGAN...KEITH...LINCOLN AND PERKINS COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT (8 PM MDT). AT 430 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KEITH COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST WEST OF THE KEITH/GARDEN COUNTY LINE AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. THE STORMS STRETCHED FROM 70 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA TO 75 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 28 MILES WEST OF OGALLALA. THESE STORMS LIKELY WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY INTO WESTERN KEITH COUNTY BY 300 PM MDT. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDIN^G 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 12, 4:35 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
NEZ005-122330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALENTINE NE ISSUED BY SCOTTSBLUFF NE 434 PM MDT (534 PM CDT) TUE JUL 12 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT / 9 PM CDT... AT 432 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE NORTHWEST PART OF CHERRY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE FROM 50 MILES WEST TO 70 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE...OR FROM 10 MILES SOUTH TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRIMAN NEBRASKA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL... GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ALONG THEIR TRACK. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 8 PM MDT / 9 PM CDT. RESIDENTS OF WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THEIR AREA THROUGH 530 PM MDT / 630 PM CDT. EMANUEL
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:38 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
NEZ023>025-035>037-057>059-069>071-122340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 539 PM CDT (439 PM MDT) TUE JUL 12 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 900 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT...HOOKER...THOMAS ...ARTHUR...MCPHERSON...LOGAN...KEITH...LINCOLN AND PERKINS COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT (8 PM MDT). A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CHASE...HAYES AND FRONTIER COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM CDT (10 PM MDT). AT 530 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS WESTERN KEITH COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 60 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OGALLALA AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHEAST COLORADO AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTIES BY 530 PM MDT. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. FAUCETTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 10:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jul 12, 12:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 47 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.