Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 24, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2000, 3:28 PM CDT for McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 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, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County McPherson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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, 3:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Tryon, NE | |
| Jun 29, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Tryon, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 292029 TORLBF NEC117-292130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 328 PM CDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCPHERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 224 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 17 MILES NORTH OF TRYON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR TRYON AROUND 400 PM CDT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RINGGOLD AROUND 415 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 TPILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA. $$ M. MUTCHLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 1:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 25 min |
| Jun 29, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 6:12 PM CDT | 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.