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Tornado Warning 24, NWS North Platte, NE

June 15, 1990Perkins County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1990, 5:26 PM MDT for Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1990, 5:26 PM MDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1990, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Perkins 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 1363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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 152326 RRA
TORLBF
NEC135-160000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
526 PM MDT FRI JUN 15 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
      WESTERN PERKINS

AT 620 PM MDT THE PERKINS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT REPORTED A
TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF VENANGO WHICH 60 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST
OF NORTH PLATTE. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER
HOUR.

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.

 ABBASOF ISSUER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	61 min
Jun 14, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope, Pierce	48 min
Jun 14, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cedar	48 min
Jun 14, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Madison, Wayne	48 min
Jun 14, 8:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Madison, Stanton	46 min
Jun 14, 9:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton	51 min
Jun 14, 9:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Colfax, Platte, Stanton	3 hr
Jun 14, 9:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Madison	3 hr
Jun 14, 10:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Antelope	28 min
Jun 15, 12:54 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton	3 hr
Jun 15, 4:08 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Colfax, Platte	3 hr
Jun 15, 4:08 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Antelope	3 hr
Jun 15, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Dundy	58 min
Jun 15, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	61 min
Jun 15, 5:37 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes	38 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.