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Tornado Warning 45, NWS North Platte, NE

June 24, 2003Brown County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 7:49 PM CDT for Brown County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 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, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brown County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 24, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 293 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2003-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2003-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 250049
TORLBF
NEC017-250145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 742 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 33 MILES SOUTH OF AINSWORTH...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF BREWSTER...MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  3 MILES WEST OF LONG PINE
  4 MILES EAST OF AINSWORTH AROUND 815 PM CDT

* ANOTHER STRONG STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL IS MOVING     
  ACROSSNORTHERN BROWN COUNTY AT 35 MPH...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH     
  OF HIGHWAY 20. 

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

LAT...LON 4278 10015 4212 10013 4211 9969 4272 9971

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan59 min
Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown63 min
Jun 24, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFBrown47 min
Jun 24, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd29 min
Jun 24, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster, Lincoln, Logan58 min
Jun 24, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHolt, Rock34 min
Jun 24, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes44 min
Jun 24, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFBlaine29 min
Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFBrown, Keya Paha, Rock60 min
Jun 24, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster, Hayes, Lincoln62 min
Jun 24, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt52 min
Jun 24, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHayes25 min
Jun 24, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield, Holt60 min
Jun 24, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier59 min
Jun 24, 9:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFHayes, Lincoln3 hr
Jun 24, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster, Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln61 min
Jun 24, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield, Holt44 min
Jun 24, 10:06 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFLoup54 min
Jun 24, 10:20 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFRock40 min
Jun 24, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster, Frontier, Lincoln66 min
Jun 25, 1:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown49 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.