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Tornado Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE

May 21, 1995Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 21, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT for Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 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 212353
TORLBF
NEC085-111-220030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
653 PM CDT SUN MAY 21 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
      NORTHERN HAYES...EXTREME SOUTHWEST LINCOLN

AT 642 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF NORTH PLATTE IN NORTHERN HAYES COUNTY MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT
10 MILES AN HOUR.

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.

 FS 2351ZISSUER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith, Perkins40 min
May 21, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFPerkins31 min
May 21, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln36 min
May 21, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHayes, Perkins24 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.