Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 39, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 1998, 6:22 PM CST for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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
- Oct 28, 1998, 6:22 PM CST (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 1998, 7:10 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 00:26 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, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Page, NE | A spotter reported a brief touch down. |
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, 0.4 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1015 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 290020 TORLBF NEC089-290110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 622 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 710 PM CST * AT 620 PM CST... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF O NEILL OR 4 MILES NORTH OF ATKINSON... MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED TORNADO WARNING. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS ALONG HIGHWAY 11. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! JWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 6:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 62 min |
| Oct 28, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 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.