Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 41, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 6:54 PM CDT for Blaine County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 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, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 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), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 242354 TORLBF NEC009-250100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 654 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 652 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER DUNNING...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BREWSTER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWSTER AROUND 720 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4205 10025 4176 10022 4177 9971 4207 9972 $$ DP
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, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 31 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, 6:56 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.