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Tornado Warning 12, NWS North Platte, NE

June 12, 1994Cuming County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1994, 8:26 PM CDT for Cuming County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 1994, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Cuming County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 12, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Beemer, NE	Several small tornadoes briefly touched down in Cuming County with one twelve miles northeast of Beemer tearing up trees and overturning a pivot irrigation system. The others occurred in open fields with no apparent damage. Hail and very strong straight line

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 514 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.3
Supercell composite: 35.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KOFK 130127
TOROFK
NEC039-130200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
826 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...CUMING COUNTY
 
AT 825 PM CDT STORM CHASERS REPORT 75 PM INFLOW INTO THE STORM AND THERE
CONTINUES TO BE STRONG ROTATION 25 MILES EAST OF NORFOLK...OR JUST SOUTH
OF WISNER AND WEST OF BEEMER. RADAR ALSO INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO AT
THIS LOCATION.
 
THIS STORM WILL THREATEN THE TOWNS OF BEEMER...WISNER AND WEST POINT.
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM AND IF YOU AREA IN CUMING COUNTY YOU
SHOULD BE IN SHELTER.
 
ACT QUICKLY.  TAKE SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO A BASEMENT IF POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS.
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS OR
PILLOWS.
 
BOWMAN
 
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 12, 8:20 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

NEZ038-071-130220-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
821 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 1994

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CUSTER COUNTY AND FRONTIER COUNTY
   UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE OCCURRING ACROSS FRONTIER COUNTY AND
CUSTER COUNTY HAVE NOW MOVED ON TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST.  WITH THE
ATMOSPHERE BECOMING MORE STABLE WITH A NORTHWEST WIND IT IS UNLIKLEY
THAT ANY MORE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSJTORMS WILL BE OCCURRING TONIGHT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

MONSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Madison	29 min
Jun 12, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Stanton	35 min
Jun 12, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Madison, Wayne	15 min
Jun 12, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cuming, Stanton	38 min
Jun 12, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cuming	33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.