Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1994, 8:57 PM CDT for Cuming County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min. 3 reports 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, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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, 9:14 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 |
| Jun 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | West Point, 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 |
| Jun 12, 9:20 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, 2.0 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOFK 130158 TOROFK NEC039-130230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 857 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA ...CUMING COUNTY AT 855 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF BEEMER IN CUMING COUNTY AND A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 3 MILES EAST OF BEEMER AT 848 PM CDT. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TOWNS OF BEEMER...AND WEST POINT ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES...TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. BOWMAN &
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, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cuming | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.