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Tornado Warning 43, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 8:25 PM CST for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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, 8:25 PM CST (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2000, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Holt County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 8:30 PM CST | Hail 1 | Amelia, 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, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 010226 TORLBF NEC089-010330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 825 PM CST TUE OCT 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 930 PM CST * AT 825 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMELIA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTH OF BURWELL...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 9 MILES WEST OF AMELIA AROUND 840 PM CST 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATKINSON AROUND 900 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 CLOSET0. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4209 9923 4210 9892 4261 9880 4270 9924 SHEETS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 50 min |
| 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 |
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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.