Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 11, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2003, 5:31 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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
- May 23, 2003, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2003, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 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), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 232331 TORLBF NEC031-240000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 528 PM MDT FRI MAY 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM MDT(700 PM CDT) * AT 625 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 8 MILES SOUTH OF KILGORE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF VALENTINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. WALNUT SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR KILGORE. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR NORTHEAST CHERRY COUNTY. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MERRITT RESERVOIR DAM AROUND 645 PM CDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING(1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING) FOR NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4297 10023 4296 10154 4253 10154 4257 10023 $$ CDC
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 63 min |
| May 23, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 30 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.