Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 24, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 5:43 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 5:43 AM CDT (10:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:45 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sutherland, NE | |
| Jun 10, 6:40 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | North Platte, 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
068 WFUS1 KLBF 101042 RRA TORLBF NEC111-101130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 543 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 630 AM CDT * AT 542 AM CDT... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 18 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 7 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF HERSHEY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HERSHEY BY 550 AM CDT NORTH PLATTE BY 615 AM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION ACT QUICKLY IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE MOVE TO A BASEMENT IF POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. SLM
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, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes | 33 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.