Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 34, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 1997, 6:56 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1997, 6:56 PM MDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1997, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:16 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Wood Lake, NE | |
| Aug 22, 7:50 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Wood Lake, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 230055 RRA TORLBF NEC031-230200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 756 PM CDT (656 PM MDT) FRI AUG 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EAST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY AT 754 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VALENTINE OR 5 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF WOOD LAKE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO PASS FROM 4 MILES NORTH TO 2 MILES WEST OF WOOD LAKE...HOWEVER LARGE HAIL IS EXPECTED NEAR... WOOD LAKE BY 805 PM CDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISRSUED EARLIER FOR EAST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY. SLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 62 min |
| Aug 22, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.