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Tornado Warning 10, NWS North Platte, NE

June 12, 1994Stanton County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1994, 7:25 PM CDT for Stanton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1994, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Stanton County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 95 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4262 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
4262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
514 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.3
Supercell composite
35.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOFK 130026
TOROFK
NEC119-167-179-130100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
725 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY...NORTHERN STANTON COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 722 PM CDT RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO AND
ROTATION WAS VISIBLE JUST NORTHWEST OF THE NORFOLK AIRPORT. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF
NORFOLK...HOSKINS AND PILGER.
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION AND EVERYONE IN THE WARNED
AREA SHOULD BE IN SHELTER.
 
AT 725 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND 3 MILES WEST OF NORFOLK AND
WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
ACT QUICKLY.  TAKE SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO A BASEMENT IF POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS.
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS OR
PILLOWS.
 
BOWMAN
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFMadison29 min
Jun 12, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFMadison, Wayne15 min
Jun 12, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuming, Stanton38 min
Jun 12, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuming34 min
Jun 12, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuming33 min

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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.