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Tornado Warning 28, NWS North Platte, NE

July 29, 1986Madison County, Pierce County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 29, 1986, 9:02 PM CDT for Madison County, Pierce County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 1986, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1986, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Madison County, NE, Pierce 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOFK 300202
TOROFK
NEC119-139-300230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
902 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...NORTHERN MADISON AND SOUTHERN PIERCE

AT 855 PM CDT RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF NORFOLK...NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE ALSO BEEN
REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.  MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.

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

 BOWMAN 0159Z

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Antelope, Knox, Pierce	51 min
Jul 29, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Loup	49 min
Jul 29, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Antelope, Madison, Pierce	29 min
Jul 29, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Madison, Pierce	32 min
Jul 29, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Wheeler	56 min
Jul 29, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	27 min
Jul 29, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	24 min
Jul 30, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	25 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.