Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 5:13 PM MDT for Sioux County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 12, 2001, 5:13 PM MDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sioux County, NE
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:53 PM MDT | Hail 1.25 | Harrison, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KCYS 122314 TORCYS NEC165-130000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 513 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SIOUX COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 508 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL SIOUX COUNTY...OR ABOUT 34 MILES EAST OF LUSK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING. LAT...LON 4283 10397 4262 10377 4263 10349 4305 10357 DAUGHERTY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Dawes | 42 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.