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Tornado Warning 11, NWS North Platte, NE

May 29, 2000Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2000, 7:50 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2000, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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 29, 7:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 64 M	North Platte, NE	Camper blown off the road
May 29, 7:55 PM CDT	Hail 1	Sutherland, 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 1075 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 300051
TORLBF
NEC111-300115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
750 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 748 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD  
  4 MILES EAST OF HERSHEY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF                 
  NORTH  PLATTE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY...IT MAY SAVE YOUR
LIFE.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4136 10123 4101 10121 4103 10078 4138 10079

$$
CDC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	40 min
May 29, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	45 min
May 29, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer	45 min
May 29, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	46 min
May 29, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	63 min
May 29, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer, Loup	60 min
May 29, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	38 min
May 29, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	54 min
May 29, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	27 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.