Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 31, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2001, 7:43 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2001, 7:43 PM MDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2001, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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, 7:52 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 E | Eli, NE | |
| Jul 25, 8:25 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Cody, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1391 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1307 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 260144 TORLBF NEC031-260230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 743 PM MDT WED JUL 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 830 PM MDT * AT 738 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MERRIMAN...OR ABOUT 32 MILES EAST OF GORDON...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF NORTHWEST CHERRY COUNTY 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4299 10124 4296 10198 4247 10198 4251 10111 $$ AWJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 55 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.