Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2001, 4:19 PM CDT for Logan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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
- May 31, 2001, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Logan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Stapleton, 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 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 312119 TORLBF NEC113-312145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 419 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 417 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR STAPLETON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY 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. LAT...LON 4156 10067 4141 10069 4141 10028 4156 10030 $$ KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 41 min |
| May 31, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 56 min |
| May 31, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 65 min |
| May 31, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 53 min |
| May 31, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 63 min |
| May 31, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 63 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.