Tornado Warning 47, NWS North Platte, NE

Issued

Jun 24, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)

Expired

Jun 24, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS North Platte, NE

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brown County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Rock County, NE

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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897 
WFUS53 KLBF 250115
TORLBF
NEC017-103-149-250215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KEYA PAHA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 807 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 3 MILES NORTH OF NEWPORT...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF
  BASSETT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF   
  PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME AND NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL
  CLOUDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THIS STORM.  A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WAS LOCATED IN NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY AND THIS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN
  KEYA PAHA COUNTY THIS STORM ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SEVERE 
  WEATHER.

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

LAT...LON 4253 10014 4253 9931 4297 9930 4296 10011

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HIRSCH

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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.