Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 37, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 1998, 5:32 PM CST for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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
- Oct 28, 1998, 5:32 PM CST (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 1998, 6:20 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holt County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Emmet, NE | Two brief touchdowns were associated with this tornado, one 3 miles south southwest of Emmet and on 2 miles west of Emmet. |
| Oct 28, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Atkinson, NE | Tornado touched down on the northeast edge of Atkinson and remained on the ground for nearly 1 mile. The tornado destroyed a pole barn. It also carried a metal shed 100 yards and damaged trees and feed bunks. The tornado touched down two more times, once 1 mil |
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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 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 282334 COR TORLBF NEC089-290020- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED ...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 532 PM CST WED OCT 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 620 PM CST * AT 531 PM CST... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF O NEILL OR 1 MILE SOUTH OF ATKINSON.p.. MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! JWS/CDC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| Oct 28, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 48 min |
| Oct 28, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 49 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.