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Tornado Warning 25, NWS North Platte, NE

July 3, 2000Frontier County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2000, 6:56 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 3 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: Jul 3, 2000, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Frontier County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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
Jul 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Stockville, NE
Jul 3, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Stockville, NE	Trained spotter reported brief tornado touchdown.
Jul 3, 7:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Curtis, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -278 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

977 
WFUS53 KLBF 032357
TORLBF
NEC063-040100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
656 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  STOCKVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF MCCOOK...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STOCKVILLE AROUND 740 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.

LAT...LON 4040 10072 4025 10059 4040 10019 4060 10035
$$

DJB/JRS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Lincoln	54 min
Jul 3, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 min
Jul 3, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	58 min
Jul 3, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	63 min
Jul 3, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	43 min
Jul 3, 4:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Lincoln	6 hr
Jul 3, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	54 min
Jul 3, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	59 min
Jul 3, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	68 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.