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Tornado Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE

April 25, 1994Antelope County, Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1994, 4:49 PM CDT for Antelope County, Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 1994, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Antelope County, NE, Holt County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 915 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -335 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 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 KOFK 252150
TOROFK
NEC089-003-252215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
449 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN HOLT COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...WESTERN ANTELOPE COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM NORFOLK RADAR AND PUBLIC CONFIRMED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND
AROUND 10 MILES WEST OF ELGIN MOVING NORTH. ELGIN IS 35 MILES WEST OF
NORFOLK.
 
PERSONS FROM CLEARWATER...EWING..ORCHARD AND STAFFORD TAKE SHELTER.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE SHELTER IN A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
A TORNADO WATCH ALLSO REMIANS IF EFFECT
 
SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	37 min
Apr 25, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	44 min
Apr 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes, Lincoln	50 min
Apr 25, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wheeler	38 min
Apr 25, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Antelope	26 min
Apr 25, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Madison	30 min
Apr 25, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Pierce, Stanton, Wayne	59 min
Apr 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cedar	67 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.