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Tornado Warning 22, NWS North Platte, NE

June 9, 1998Hayes County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1998, 10:27 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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: Jun 9, 1998, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Hayes County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Hayes Center, NE	The tornado touched down briefly and did no damage.

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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1395 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

069 
WFUS1 KLBF 100332
TORLBF
NEC085-100400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1027 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1026 PM CDT... SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 28 MILES NORTH
  NORTHWEST OF MCCOOK OR 2 MILES SOUTH OF HAYES CENTER
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS
NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

TLW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	48 min
Jun 9, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Deuel	32 min
Jun 9, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	34 min
Jun 10, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	66 min
Jun 10, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	63 min
Jun 10, 4:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	65 min
Jun 10, 5:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	66 min
Jun 10, 5:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	47 min
Jun 10, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	49 min
Jun 10, 6:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	32 min
Jun 10, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	65 min
Jun 10, 7:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	48 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.