Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 24, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 8:28 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
539 WFUS53 KLBF 100128 TORLBF NEC041-100215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 825 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANSLEY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF MASON CITY AROUND 835 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. 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 4147 9955 4106 9964 4108 9924 4148 9923 $$ DP/TLK
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, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 41 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.