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Tornado Warning 16, NWS North Platte, NE

June 12, 2000Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2000, 9:19 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2000, 9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Custer County, NE

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 1538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 130218
TORLBF
NEC041-130300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
919 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 916 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF
  ARNOLD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR ARNOLD AROUND 925 PM CDT

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 100 AM CDT 
TUESDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4142 10024 4133 10019 4173 9973 4173 10024

SHEETS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson	63 min
Jun 12, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	67 min
Jun 12, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	57 min
Jun 12, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer, Logan	25 min
Jun 12, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	33 min
Jun 12, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	45 min
Jun 12, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	44 min
Jun 12, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	58 min
Jun 12, 10:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.