Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 27, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 7:09 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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 13, 1998, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 8:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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 13, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Callaway, 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 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
748 WFUS1 KLBF 140007 RRA TORLBF NEC041-140110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 709 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 810 PM CDT * AT 707 PM CDT... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF BROKEN BOW OR 8 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF MERNA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING TORNADOES. PLEAST TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BROKEN BOW BY 720 PM CDT MERNA BY 720 PM 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. KMB
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 58 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.