Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 9, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
317 WUUS53 KLBF 092345 SVRLBF NEC041-100030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 643 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GATES...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TAYLOR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 12 MILES NORTH OF WEISSERT AROUND 650 PM CDT OVER SARGENT AROUND 700 PM CDT 8 MILES NORTH OF COMSTOCK AROUND 710 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 MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4172 9974 4108 9973 4106 9922 4173 9924 $$ DP
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 64 min |
| Jun 9, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 58 min |
| Jun 9, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 38 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.