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Tornado Warning 39, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 5:19 PM CST for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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
- Oct 31, 2000, 5:19 PM CST (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Frontier County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 5:20 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Stockville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 312320 TORLBF NEC063-010000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 519 PM CST TUE OCT 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 516 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF MEDICINE CREEK DAM...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 6 MILES SOUTH OF EUSTIS AROUND 545 PM CST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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 900 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4036 10042 4036 10010 4067 10001 4068 10041 SHEETS#
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 49 min |
| Oct 31, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 38 min |
| Oct 31, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.