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Tornado Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE

May 3, 2003Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 3, 2003, 5:39 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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
May 3, 2003, 5:39 PM MDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2003, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Garden County, NE

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 3, 4:10 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2003-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2003-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 231 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-313 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
264 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 032339
TORLBF
NEC069-040030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
537 PM MDT SAT MAY 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN GARDEN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 536 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 20 MILES WEST OF CRESCENT LAKE NWR...OR ABOUT 24 MILES    
  SOUTH OF ALLIANCE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A        
  HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  2 MILES SOUTH OF CRESCENT LAKE NWR AROUND 630 PM MDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4199 10275 4157 10275 4153 10200 4173 10209
          4200 10210

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 1:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry50 min
May 3, 1:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine64 min
May 3, 2:57 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry33 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.