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Tornado Warning 40, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 6:25 PM CST for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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
- Oct 31, 2000, 6:25 PM CST (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Custer County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Oconto, NE | The tornado moved out of Dawson county into south central Custer county 7 miles south southwest of Oconto. The tornado traveled across open rangeland until destroying a modular home 1 mile south of Oconto. The tornado then moved directly through the small comm |
| Oct 31, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Broken Bow, NE | The tornado touched down 7 miles southeast of Broken Bow and traveled 12 miles north northeast across farm and rangeland. Initial damage occurred at touchdown with a modular home destroyed. Then over the next 2 miles 3 farmsteads were struck. The first suffere |
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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 844 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 010026 TORLBF NEC041-010115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 625 PM CST TUE OCT 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 622 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF OCONTO...OR ABOUT 19 MILES EAST OF GOTHENBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER OCONTO AROUND 635 PM CST 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALLAWAY AROUND 640 PM CST 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW AROUND 655 PM CST 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 900 PM CST. LAT...LON 4106 10021 4106 9966 4107 9922 4144 9924 8 4144 10023 SHEETS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 6:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 43 min |
| Oct 31, 7:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 41 min |
| Oct 31, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer, Loup | 45 min |
| Oct 31, 8:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 65 min |
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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.