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Tornado Warning 30, NWS North Platte, NE

July 25, 2001Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2001, 6:50 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min. 5 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 25, 2001, 6:50 PM MDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2001, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 55 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), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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 25, 7:25 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Merriman, NE	Siding on a house was damaged and windows were broken. Several large tree limbs were down.
Jul 25, 7:25 PM MDT	Hail 2.75	Merriman, NE
Jul 25, 7:30 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Merriman, NE	A tornado touched down 2 miles southeast of Merriman and moved southeast to 7 miles south of Eli before lifting. Trees were uprooted and windows were broken out of a house. Extensive damage was done to popcorn crops and alfalfa hay fields. Nine center pivot
Jul 25, 7:40 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Merriman, NE
Jul 25, 7:52 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 62 E	Eli, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 25, 6:15 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 1880 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 260050
TORLBF

NEC031-260145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
650 PM MDT WED JUL 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT(845 PM CDT)

* AT 647 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  MERRIMAN...OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF GORDON...MOVING SOUTH AT
  20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  7 MILES EAST OF MERRIMAN AROUND 705 PM MDT
  6 MILES WEST OF ELI AROUND 710 PM MDT

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 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT WEDNESDAY
EVENING(MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING) FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4317 10153 4312 10176 4265 10172 4272 10060

$$

AWJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 7:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	47 min
Jul 25, 8:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	40 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.