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Tornado Warning 21, NWS North Platte, NE

July 9, 2001Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2001, 9:59 AM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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
Jul 9, 2001, 9:59 AM CDT (14:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2001, 10:30 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Holt County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 12:00Z on 2001-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1020 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2001-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1261 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 091501
TORLBF

NEC089-091530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
959 AM CDT MON JUL 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1030 AM CDT

* AT 956 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF O'NEILL...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER O'NEILL AROUND 1005 AM CDT
  OVER INMAN AROUND 1020 AM CDT
  4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PAGE AROUND 1030 AM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS 
STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF 
PRODUCING A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SP|OT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4252 9860 4251 9882 4209 9884 4209 9831
          4245 9831

$$
KAR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 9:07 AM CDTTornado WarningLBFHolt53 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.