Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 26, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2003, 7:21 PM CDT for Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 54 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 11, 2003, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rock County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
798 WFUS53 KLBF 120021 TORLBF NEC149-120115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 721 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ROCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 717 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH OF BASSETT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSE AROUND 740 PM CDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4242 9963 4208 9966 4209 9923 4247 9926 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Rock | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Rock | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Loup | 49 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.