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Tornado Warning 23, NWS North Platte, NE

July 16, 2001Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2001, 6:16 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 14 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 16, 2001, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Holt County, NE

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 16, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 1665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 162317
TORLBF

NEC089-162330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
616 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 610 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF PAGE...OR 
  ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF O'NEILL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.  THIS 
  STORM PRODUCED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF ONEILL AND RADAR INDICATES A 
  TORNADO.

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.

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.

LAT...LON 4281 9923 4254 9921 4244 9885 4233 9834
         D 4273 9835

$$
CDC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	24 min
Jul 16, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha, Rock	47 min
Jul 16, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	66 min
Jul 16, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd	48 min
Jul 16, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	32 min
Jul 16, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	60 min
Jul 16, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	60 min
Jul 16, 5:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Rock	3 hr
Jul 16, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	53 min
Jul 16, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	34 min
Jul 16, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	25 min
Jul 16, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	65 min
Jul 16, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	36 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.