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Tornado Warning 8, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2000, 5:09 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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
- May 17, 2000, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 5:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Anselmo, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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.
844 WFUS53 KLBF 172210 TORLBF NEC041-172300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 509 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 507 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF MERNA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR ANSELMO AROUND 535 PM CDT 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 FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4135 10020 4139 9944 4173 9947 4173 10026 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, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 27 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, 5:57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.