Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 6:51 PM MDT for Cherry County, Grant County, Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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
- May 19, 1998, 6:51 PM MDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1998, 7:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherry County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:00 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Whitman, NE | |
| May 19, 7:35 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 19, 6:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBF 200048 RRA TORLBF NEC031-075-091-200155- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 751 PM CDT (651 PM MDT) TUE MAY 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHWESTERN HOOKER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 855 PM CDT (755 PM MDT) * AT 750 PM CDT (650 PM MDT)... NORTH PLATTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 28 MILES WEST OF MULLEN OR 3 MILES WEST OF WHITMAN MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WHITMAN BY 700 PM MDT 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. MTM
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 66 min |
| May 19, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 62 min |
| May 19, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 63 min |
| May 19, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 62 min |
| May 19, 7:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 66 min |
| May 19, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 65 min |
| May 19, 7:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 66 min |
| May 19, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 63 min |
| May 19, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 64 min |
| May 19, 8:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | McPherson | 64 min |
| May 19, 8:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 67 min |
| May 19, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 61 min |
| May 19, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 66 min |
| May 19, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer | 63 min |
| May 19, 9:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 35 min |
| May 19, 10:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 63 min |
| May 19, 10:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 65 min |
| May 19, 10:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 62 min |
| May 19, 10:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 64 min |
| May 19, 11:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 50 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.