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Tornado Warning 21, NWS North Platte, NE

June 9, 2003Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 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), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 100100
TORLBF
NEC041-100130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
757 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 757 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF COMSTOCK...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF
  BURWELL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING A LARGE  
  TORNADO.

IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY...IT MAY SAVE 
YOUR LIFE.

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 4143 9952 4141 9921 4172 9923 4173 9953

$$

KECK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	60 min
Jun 9, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	59 min
Jun 9, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	28 min
Jun 9, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Boyd, Keya Paha	37 min
Jun 9, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	41 min
Jun 9, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	47 min

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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.