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Tornado Warning 17, NWS North Platte, NE

June 28, 1986Cedar County, Knox County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1986, 9:48 PM CDT for Cedar County, Knox County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1986, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1986, 10:20 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cedar County, NE, Knox County, NE

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOFK 290254
TOROFK
NEC107-290240-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
948 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...EASTERN KNOX AND SOUTHWEST CEDAR.

AT 948 PM CDT THE KNOX COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO
BETWEEN LINDY AND BLOOMFIELD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

 PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER
IF POSSIBLE...OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.

 THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION...PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF
STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT SHELTER OR IN THE
CENTRAL PART OF THEIR HOMES.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
REINFORCED SHELTER.

 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FORK NORTHEAST AND
 NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 3 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING.
 BOWERSOX

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 28, 8:48 PM CDT, 1 hour before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
840 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

AT 835PM CDT..A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER EXTREME
EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS
NEAR HALSEY NEBRASKA..50 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE NEBR-
ASKA.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH.

PERSONS] AROUND HALSEY NEBRASKA CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN..BRILLIANT
LIGHTNING..AND LARGE HAIL FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.

COFFIN 290147

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Knox	23 min
Jun 29, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	54 min
Jun 29, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha	26 min
Jun 29, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Keya Paha	56 min
Jun 29, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	59 min
Jun 29, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	50 min
Jun 29, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cedar	43 min
Jun 29, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope, Knox	52 min
Jun 29, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Wheeler	52 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.