Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 15, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 6:18 PM CDT for Holt County, Keya Paha County, Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 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, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Rock County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 9, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
573
WFUS53 KLBF 092318
TORLBF
NEC089-103-149-100015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
616 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN KEYA PAHA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NORTHWESTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NORTHEASTERN ROCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
ROTATION 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWPORT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF
SPRINGVIEW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
9 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEWPORT AROUND 640 PM CDT
4 MILES NORTHEAST OF STUART AROUND 700 PM CDT
5 MILES NORTH OF ATKINSON AROUND 715 PM CDT
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.
LAT...LON 4294 9953 4277 9964 4259 9937 4249 9919
4245 9886 4281 9885 4277 9923
$$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, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 38 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes 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.