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Tornado Warning 7, NWS North Platte, NE

June 25, 1989Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1989, 8:27 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 1989, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1989, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 2940 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.9
Supercell composite: 28.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 260127
TORLBF
NEC111-260200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
ISSUED BY OMAHA NE
827 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
      EASTERN LINCOLN...INCLUDING THE CITY OF NORTH PLATTE

AT 830 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED ON THE GROUND IN NORTH PLATTE BY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEES AT LEE BIRD FIELD.  THE TORNADO
WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WAS CAUSING DAMAGE...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY- WITH THIS STORM.

PERSONS IN THE TOWNS OF MAXWELL AND BRADY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER
AT ONCE.

BYRD

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 25, 6:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
620 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 1989

AT 615 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED ON THE HITCHCOCK AND DUNDY
COUNTY LINE ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF STRATTON.  THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND
MOVE EAST POSSIBLY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN BREAKING OUT OVER SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR WITH HAYS...FRONTIER AND RED WILLOW
COUNTIES TO EXPERIENCE THE EARLY ONSLAUGHT.  NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS
ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA BUT RESIDENTS SHOULD
MONITOR ANY DEVELOPMENT CLOSELY AS CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR SOME
ROUGH WEATHER.

MONSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	26 min
Jun 25, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	31 min
Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	25 min
Jun 25, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	34 min
Jun 25, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	25 min
Jun 25, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes, Lincoln	34 min
Jun 25, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Rock	44 min
Jun 25, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	39 min
Jun 25, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan	39 min
Jun 25, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	55 min
Jun 25, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	29 min
Jun 25, 10:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield, Loup	32 min
Jun 26, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	47 min
Jun 26, 1:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield	27 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1989 Every tornado warning in 1989 Tornadoes in 1989

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.