Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2001, 6:27 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2001, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 642 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 130026 TORLBF NEC161-130130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 627 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM MDT * AT 720 PM CDT(620 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 37 MILES WEST OF RUSHVILLE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAY SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 8 MILES NORTH OF RUSHVILLE AROUND 720 PM MDT 4 MILES NORTH OF CLINTON AROUND 725 PM MDT 6 MILES WEST OF GORDON AROUND 730 PM MDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT TUES DAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4294 10323 4276 10324 4268 10221 4295 10219 $$ AWJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 8:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 8:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 9:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 9:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 10:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 10:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 10:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 11:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.