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Tornado Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE

May 17, 2000Lincoln County, Perkins County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2000, 3:48 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min. 2 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: May 17, 2000, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 17, 3:55 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Elsie, NE
May 17, 3:55 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Wallace, 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
May 17, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 853 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -378 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

853 
WFUS53 KLBF 172049
TORLBF
NEC111-135-172115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
348 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PERKINS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
  SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT(315 PM MDT)

* AT 342 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER WALLACE...OR ABOUT
  24 MILES NORTH OF HAYES CENTER...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH.

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 800 PM CDT WEDNESDAY
EVENING(700 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4070 10143 4069 10097 4101 10097 4100 10158

JWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	60 min
May 17, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	63 min
May 17, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Perkins	39 min
May 17, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes, Lincoln	38 min
May 17, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	55 min
May 17, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	62 min
May 17, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	43 min
May 17, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	52 min
May 17, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	48 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	47 min
May 17, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	56 min
May 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson	62 min
May 17, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	61 min
May 17, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	51 min
May 17, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	48 min
May 17, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Loup	61 min
May 17, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	41 min
May 17, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	66 min
May 17, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	59 min
May 17, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 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.