Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 32, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1998, 2:17 PM CDT for Brown County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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
- Jul 6, 1998, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1998, 3:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ainsworth, NE | Brief tornado touch down in open rangeland. |
| Jul 6, 2:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Ainsworth, NE | |
| Jul 6, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Long Pine, NE | Brief tornado touch down in open rangeland. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 967 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 061912 RRA TORLBF NEC017-062005- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 217 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 305 PM CDT * AT 215 PM CDT... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF AINSWORTH OR 5 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF JOHNSTOWN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE JUST SOUTH OF... JOHNSTOWN BY 225 PM CDT AINSWORTH BY 250 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION! ACT QUICKLY! IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE! MOVE TO A BASElMENT IF POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. SP
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 4:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Boyd | 3 hr |
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.