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Tornado Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE

March 28, 1998Hooker County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1998, 8:15 PM MST for Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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: Mar 28, 1998, 8:15 PM MST (03:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1998, 8:50 PM MST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Hooker County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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
Mar 28, 8:25 PM MST	Hail 1	Mullen, 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 406 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 290317 RRA
TORLBF
NEC091-290350-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
915 PM CST (815 PM MST) SAT MAR 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE NE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 PM MST (950 PM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN HOOKER COUNTY

AT 813 PM MST...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NORTH PLATTE
DOPPLER RADAR 22 MILES SOUTH OF MULLEN MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.

THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS SOUTH AND EAST OF
MULLEN.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED
AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUG<HT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

SPRINGER/MICHELS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 5:52 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	63 min
Mar 28, 6:15 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith	65 min
Mar 28, 6:28 PM MST	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur	62 min
Mar 28, 7:22 PM MST	Tornado Warning	LBF	McPherson	63 min
Mar 28, 7:26 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	64 min
Mar 28, 7:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	49 min
Mar 28, 8:22 PM MST	Tornado Warning	LBF	Thomas	63 min
Mar 28, 9:13 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry	62 min
Mar 28, 9:13 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	62 min
Mar 28, 9:38 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	62 min
Mar 28, 9:52 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	63 min
Mar 28, 10:13 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Rock	62 min
Mar 28, 10:56 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	49 min
Mar 29, 12:24 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	46 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.