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Tornado Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2000, 3:08 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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, 3:08 PM MDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Keith County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 3:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Paxton, NE | |
| May 17, 3:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Paxton, NE | |
| May 17, 3:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Paxton, 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, 1:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
579 WFUS53 KLBF 172109 TORLBF NEC101-172200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 308 PM MDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 400 PM MDT * AT 308 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PAXTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF OGALLALA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 6 MILES WEST OF PAXTON AROUND 315 PM MDT 7 MILES EAST OF ROSCOE AROUND 320 PM MDT 13 MILES EAST OF OGALLALA AROUND 325 PM MDT 5 MILES EAST OF KEYSTONE AROUND 330 PM MDT 14 MILES EAST OF LEMOYNE AROUND 345 PM MDT 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 700 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4101 10168 4100 10126 4139 10127 4139 10187 JWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 11:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 60 min |
| May 17, 12:12 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 63 min |
| May 17, 2:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 39 min |
| May 17, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 38 min |
| May 17, 2:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 55 min |
| May 17, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 62 min |
| May 17, 2:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 27 min |
| May 17, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 43 min |
| May 17, 3:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 48 min |
| May 17, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 47 min |
| May 17, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 56 min |
| May 17, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 62 min |
| May 17, 3:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 61 min |
| May 17, 4:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 51 min |
| May 17, 4:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 48 min |
| May 17, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Loup | 61 min |
| May 17, 5:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 41 min |
| May 17, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 66 min |
| May 17, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 59 min |
| May 17, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 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.