Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 30, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2003, 8:46 PM CDT for Blaine County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 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), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 303 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.
919 WFUS53 KLBF 120146 TORLBF NEC009-120230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 843 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 930 PM CDT * AT 843 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWSTER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES NORTH OF BREWSTER AROUND 910 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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 4206 10006 4188 10003 4188 9969 4207 9970 $$ 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, 8:04 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, 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.