Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 30, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT for Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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 24, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Keya Paha County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 7:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Springview, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 1511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
155 WFUS53 KLBF 242336 TORLBF NEC103-250030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 636 PM CDT MON JUL 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN KEYA PAHA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGVIEW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 9 MILES WEST OF SPRINGVIEW AROUND 730 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4319 10003 4312 10025 4282 10019 4272 9949 $$ TLK
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.