Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1997, 6:25 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1997, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1997, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 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
- 3148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
457 WFUS1 KLBF 210025 RRA TORLBF NEC031-210100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 725 PM CDT (625 PM MDT) FRI JUN 20 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY AT 723 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR 27 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF MULLEN MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS AND MOVE JUST NORTH OF THE COUNTY LINE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. THIS CANCELS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY. BOWMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson, Thomas | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Thomas | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 8:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 32 min |
| Jun 20, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 9:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 9:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 10:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 9:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.