Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 28, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 2001, 7:19 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 17, 2001, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 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), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Taylor, NE | As the supercell continued to track northeast and intensify, a second tornado touched down on the north side of the reservoir about 17 miles north northeast of Taylor. The second tornado was larger and longer lived as it moved across open rangeland. Four windm |
| Jul 17, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Burwell, NE | A tornado touched down briefly 6 miles northeast of Burwell in open rangeland with no damage. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 180021 TORLBF NEC089-180115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 719 PM CDT TUE JUL 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 717 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHAMBERS...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF O'NEILL...THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST UNDER 5 MILES AN HOUR. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY SOUTH OF CHAMBERS IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINSr IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4227 9923 4210 9922 4210 9832 4227 9831 $$ && TLK
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 42 min |
| Jul 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 59 min |
| Jul 17, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 30 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.