Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 48, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 9:05 PM CDT for Hayes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 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, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hayes County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -422 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 642 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 250205 TORLBF NEC085-250230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 906 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 902 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES SOUTH OF HAYES CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FARM AND RANGELANDS OF CENTRAL HAYES COUNTY FARM AND RANGELANDS OF EAST CENTRAL HAYES COUNTY THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. LAT...LON 4049 10118 4037 10101 4061 10080 4064 10128 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 34 min |
| Jun 24, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown | 56 min |
| Jun 24, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha, Rock | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Hayes, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Loup | 54 min |
| Jun 24, 10:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Rock | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Frontier, Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jun 25, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 49 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.