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Tornado Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE

June 29, 2001Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2001, 6:44 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2001, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2001, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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.

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 29, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 917 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 300044
TORLBF
NEC031-300145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT(745 PM MDT)

* AT 740 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 18 MILES NORTH OF BROWNLEE...
  OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF VALENTINE...MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  5 MILES EAST OF BROWNLEE AROUND 805 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 THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY
EVENING(800 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4278 10022 4276 10085 4210 10072 4211 10020

$$

AWJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 6:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	43 min
Jun 29, 6:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	39 min
Jun 29, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	65 min
Jun 29, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	63 min
Jun 29, 7:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	44 min
Jun 30, 10:42 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Keya Paha	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.