Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 50, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2003, 10:20 PM CDT for Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 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, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rock County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 3681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
499 WFUS53 KLBF 250320 TORLBF NEC149-250400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1020 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ROCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1018 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROSE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF BREWSTER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FARM AND RANGELANDS OF SOUTHEASTERN ROCK COUNTY A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4249 9965 4209 9964 4211 9928 4251 9925 $$ DP
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, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes | 25 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, 10:24 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.