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Tornado Warning 23, NWS North Platte, NE

June 9, 2003Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 8:19 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Holt County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 100119
TORLBF
NEC089-100200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 812 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 
MPH ACROSS EASTERN BOYD COUNTY. TRAINED SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED 
NUMEROUS LARGE TORNADOES WITH THIS STORM. THE CITY OF PAGE IS IN THE 
PATH OF THIS STORM AND MAY SEE EFFECTS OF THIS STORM BY 830 PM CDT.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING 
SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO...TAKE 
COVER IMMEDIATELY.

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.

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 4275 9879 4213 9871 4211 9832 4275 9834

$$

DP

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, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	30 min
Jun 9, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Boyd, Keya Paha	37 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.