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Tornado Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE

May 23, 1994Grant County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 23, 1994, 5:07 PM MDT for Grant County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 1994, 5:07 PM MDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1994, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Grant County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -499 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 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 232307
TORLBF
NEC075-232345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
507 PM MDT MON MAY 23 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      GRANT

AT (6PM CDT )  A TORNADO      ) WAS............. REPORTED BY THE
GRANT COUNTY SHERIFF 8 MILES WEST OF HYANNIS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS ALSO REPORTED 8 MILES NORTH OF HYANNIS.

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.

REPORTS OF TORNADOS OR TORNADO DAMAGE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

 POWEROF ISSUER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	48 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.