Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 19, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2000, 12:05 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 29, 2000, 12:05 PM MDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 12:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:20 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Merriman, NE | |
| Jun 29, 12:40 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Merriman, 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 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KLBF 291807
TORLBF
NEC031-291830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1205 PM MDT THU JUN 29 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 1230 PM MDT
* AT 1205 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER WEST CENTRAL
CHERRY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 33 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GORDON...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY...IT MAY SAVE YOUR
LIFE.
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST CHERRY COUNTY.
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.
$$
M. MUTCHLERThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 11:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 12:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 12:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 1:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 1:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | McPherson | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 2:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 2:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes | 63 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.