Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 27, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2003, 8:04 PM CDT for Blaine 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 11, 2003, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Blaine County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 11, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 298 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.
342 WFUS53 KLBF 120104 TORLBF NEC009-120145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 800 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 758 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BREWSTER...MOVEMENT WAS STATIONARY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FARM AND RANGELANDS OF NORTHEASTERN BLAINE COUNTY A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4207 9994 4186 9992 4188 9970 4206 9969 $$ JWS
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, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Rock | 54 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.