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Tornado Warning 21, NWS North Platte, NE

June 28, 1989Frontier County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1989, 4:48 PM CDT for Frontier County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1989, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1989, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Frontier County, NE, Lincoln 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 282148
TORLBF
NEC063-111-282215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
      NORTHWEST FRONTIER...EXTREME SOUTHERN LINCOLN

AT 443 PM CDT SHERIFF DDEPUTY REPORTED 2 TORNADO 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF MAYWOOD, NE MOVEMENT UNKNOWN...THIS INCLUDES
MAYWOOD, NE

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...FINDK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

  HORN 2147Z ER

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, 12:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	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

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.