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Tornado Warning 25, NWS North Platte, NE

June 13, 1998Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 5:26 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 4 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 13, 1998, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 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 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 13, 5:31 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	North Platte, NE	Minor damage to trees and a few cars.
Jun 13, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Maxwell, NE	Tornado was on the ground intermittently for a distance of 4 miles from 5 miles south southwwest of Maxwell (2 miles southwest of Ft McPherson Cemetery) to 2 miles west southwest of Maxwell near the Platte river. It struck the Marantha Bible Camp downing appr
Jun 13, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado F0	North Platte Arpt, NE	Brief tornado touchdown in open country.
Jun 13, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Brady, NE	Brief tornado touchdown in open country.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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 132224 RRA
TORLBF
NEC111-132330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
526 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 525 PM CDT... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 3
  MILES WEST OF MAXWELL MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

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.

KMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	63 min
Jun 13, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Keith	61 min
Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	63 min
Jun 13, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	66 min
Jun 13, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	32 min
Jun 13, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	61 min
Jun 13, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
Jun 13, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	63 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	66 min
Jun 13, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	61 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.