Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 23, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1991, 3:57 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1991, 3:57 PM MDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1991, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dundy County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBF 032157
TORLBF
NEC057-032230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
357 PM MDT MON JUN 3 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHERN DUNDY
AT 352 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY A SHERIFFS DEPUTY NEAR THE
TOWN OF BOANE WHICH IS 8 MILES WEST OF BENKELMAN. THIS TORNADO
IS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WOULD BE
ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND.
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.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES...TAKE
COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...FIND SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST
PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF
ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING
DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PZILLOWS.
THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING
FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.
MONSON 2156What 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 3, 2:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
NEZ006-007-012-016-017-032035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 335 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1991 A 25 MILE WIDE AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO BLOOM ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF PAXTON. PEA SIZE HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WERE REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL AT 215 PM MDT. OTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING ACROSS THE REGION AND ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THE STORM IS ENROUTE TOWARDS KEYSTONE SO PLEASE TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECATUTIONS. RN
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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.