Tornado Warning 20, NWS North Platte, NE

Issued

Aug 26, 2002, 1:17 PM MDT (19:17 UTC)

Expired

Aug 26, 2002, 2:15 PM MDT

In force

58 min

Issued by

NWS North Platte, NE

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherry County, NE

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WFUS53 KLBF 261917
TORLBF
NEC031-262015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
117 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM MDT...

* AT 111 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN...OR ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF
  GORDON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY
  OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF WEST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY
  OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE
IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO
REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4298 10120 4298 10206 4245 10206 4249 10115

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.