Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 33, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 9, 2001, 6:50 PM CDT for Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 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
- Oct 9, 2001, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Loup County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Taylor, NE | An F0 tornado touched down briefly and destroyed two calving sheds. Doors were also blown off a pole barn, fences were destroyed and power lines were down. A 400 pound calf was killed by flying debris. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
969 WFUS53 KLBF 092351 TORLBF NEC115-100015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 650 PM CDT TUE OCT 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN LOUP COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT... * AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF TAYLOR... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF EXTREME EAST CENTRAL LOUP COUNTY THE TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LOUP COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4208 9948 4176 9947 4176 9923 4207 9924 $$ TLK
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 47 min |
| Oct 9, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 39 min |
| Oct 9, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Loup | 40 min |
| Oct 9, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 67 min |
| Oct 9, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 52 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.