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Tornado Warning 39, NWS North Platte, NE

June 24, 2003Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 5:59 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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 24, 2003, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 24, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -377 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 242259
TORLBF
NEC111-242330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
558 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAXWELL...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF NORTH PLATTE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  4 MILES WEST OF MAXWELL
  9 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE AROUND 605 PM CDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

THERE ARE AT LEAST THREE STORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES. THEIR 
LOCATIONS ARE JUST SOUTH OF HERSHEY AND NORTHEAST OF WALLACE. 

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4075 10122 4075 10027 4135 10028 4137 10125

$$
SPRINGER

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	56 min
Jun 23, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	58 min
Jun 23, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	53 min
Jun 23, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes, Lincoln	66 min
Jun 23, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	29 min
Jun 23, 9:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	47 min
Jun 23, 10:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes	28 min
Jun 23, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	25 min
Jun 23, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	25 min
Jun 23, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Chase, Garfield, Hayes, Lincoln, Loup	66 min
Jun 23, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 min
Jun 23, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	58 min
Jun 23, 10:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	35 min
Jun 23, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	58 min
Jun 23, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	36 min
Jun 23, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	63 min
Jun 23, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	56 min
Jun 23, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	63 min
Jun 23, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	29 min
Jun 23, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	63 min
Jun 24, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	47 min
Jun 24, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	61 min
Jun 24, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	55 min
Jun 24, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha	63 min
Jun 24, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	56 min
Jun 24, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	47 min
Jun 24, 2:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Cherry, Keya Paha	114 min
Jun 24, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	53 min
Jun 24, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	31 min
Jun 24, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	66 min
Jun 24, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	54 min
Jun 24, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer	57 min
Jun 24, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	36 min
Jun 24, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	56 min
Jun 24, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Blaine	66 min
Jun 24, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	34 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.