Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 10, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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
- Jun 13, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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 13, 9:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Oconto, NE | |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Oconto, 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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 140247 TORLBF NEC041-140315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 945 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 940 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OCONTO... OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOTHENBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OCONTO BY 952 PM CDT 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORqM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4128 10022 4106 10020 4106 9962 4128 9966 $$ KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.