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Tornado Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE

April 25, 1994Antelope County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1994, 5:04 PM CDT for Antelope County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 1994, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Antelope County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 252205
TOROFK
NEC003-252230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
504 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORFOLK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...ANTELOPE COUNTY
 
AT 500 PM CDT NOROLK WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO AND SPOTTERS
CONFIRMED A TORMADO ON THE GROUND SOUTH OF NELIGH MOVING NORTH.
PERSONS IN NELIGH TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
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 ALSO REMIANS IN 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, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Antelope, Holt	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.