Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 32, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2003, 7:17 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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 20, 2003, 7:17 PM MDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2003, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Garden County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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 20, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2030 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
471 WFUS53 KLBF 210117 TORLBF NEC069-210200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 717 PM MDT FRI JUN 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GARDEN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 713 PM MDT...15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSHKOSH...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF CHAPPELL...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 3 MILES WEST OF OSHKOSH AROUND 735 PM MDT 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. LAT...LON 4154 10258 4123 10259 4125 10208 4168 10203 $$ KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel, Garden | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 53 min |
| Jun 20, 7:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 9:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Sheridan | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 61 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.