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Tornado Warning 12, NWS North Platte, NE

June 29, 2001Deuel County, Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2001, 12:58 PM MDT for Deuel County, Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2001, 12:58 PM MDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2001, 1:30 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 291858
TORLBF
NEC049-069-291930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1258 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DEUEL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
  SOUTHERN GARDEN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 130 PM MDT

* AT 1257 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO      
  10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEWELLEN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES   SOUTH OF      
  OSHKOSH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  5 MILES SOUTH OF LEWELLEN AROUND 130 PM MDT

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.

$$
JWS

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 3:34 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	41 min
Jun 29, 12:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	59 min
Jun 29, 2:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	41 min
Jun 29, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	58 min
Jun 29, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	56 min
Jun 29, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	61 min
Jun 29, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	60 min
Jun 29, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson	62 min
Jun 29, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	51 min
Jun 29, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	55 min
Jun 29, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	44 min
Jun 29, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, Thomas	61 min
Jun 29, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry	39 min
Jun 29, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	64 min
Jun 29, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	53 min
Jun 29, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.