Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS North Platte, NE

June 11, 2003Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2003, 4:49 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 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 11, 2003, 4:49 PM MDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2003, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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
Jun 11, 1:40 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

698 
WUUS53 KLBF 112249
SVRLBF
NEC031-112345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
449 PM MDT WED JUN 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 447 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME
  SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 38 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  RUSHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FARM AND RANGELANDS OF WEST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY
  FARM AND RANGELANDS OF CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY

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 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4236 10205 4212 10201 4211 10120 4264 10148

$$

KECK

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 3:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	38 min
Jun 11, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	35 min
Jun 11, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	59 min
Jun 11, 5:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Rock	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.