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Tornado Warning 19, NWS North Platte, NE

June 28, 1989Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1989, 12:41 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min. 2 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 28, 1989, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1989, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Custer County, NE

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 28, 1:00 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Custer, NE
Jun 28, 1:15 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Custer, NE

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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 1949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 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 KLBF 281741
TORLBF
NEC041-281815-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1241 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      EASTERN CUSTER

AT 1235 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO EAST OF SARGENT
NEBRASKA MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.  IF YOU LIVE IN COMSTOCK NEBRASKA
OR SARGENT NEBRASKA YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AT THIS TIME.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

 MEYER 1737Z

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 9:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	48 min
Jun 28, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	29 min
Jun 28, 10:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	52 min
Jun 28, 11:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Wheeler	60 min
Jun 28, 11:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield	34 min
Jun 28, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	60 min
Jun 28, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	56 min
Jun 28, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln	65 min
Jun 28, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier, Lincoln	29 min
Jun 28, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier, Lincoln	27 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.