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Tornado Warning 1, NWS North Platte, NE

April 7, 2001Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2001, 12:35 AM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 7, 2001, 12:35 AM CDT (05:35 UTC)
Expired
Apr 7, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Holt County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 7, 12:47 AM CDTTornado F1Chambers, NEA tornado was reported that damaged some buildings and blew some out buildings over. It also blew down several trees.

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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 363 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 507 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
507 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
554 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.