Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2003, 6:01 PM CDT for Frontier County, Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2003, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 152301 SVRLBF NEC063-085-152345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 601 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA CENTRAL FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 559 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES SOUTH OF MAYWOOD...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCOOK...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 10 MILES WEST OF CURTIS AROUND 630 PM CDT 4 MILES WEST OF MAYWOOD AROUND 635 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4038 10104 4037 10022 4064 10019 4068 10101 $$ BUTTLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes | 42 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.