Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 32, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2001, 8:35 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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, 8:35 PM MDT (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2001, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 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), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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, 8:45 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.
084 WFUS53 KLBF 260235 TORLBF NEC031-260315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 835 PM MDT WED JUL 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 915 PM MDT(1015 PM CDT) * AT 830 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY... OR ABOUT 39 MILES NORTH OF MULLEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING(MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY MORNING) FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4270 10103 4255 10163 4222 10137 4232 10064 $$ 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, 7:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 47 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.