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Tornado Warning 53, NWS North Platte, NE

July 5, 2003Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2003, 4:55 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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: Jul 5, 2003, 4:55 PM MDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 5, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3199 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

695 
WFUS53 KLBF 052255
TORLBF
NEC031-052330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
455 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT(630 PM CDT)

* AT 450 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELI...OR ABOUT 43 MILES WEST OF
  VALENTINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CODY AROUND 520 PM MDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4311 10152 4282 10153 4282 10065 4297 10076

$$

CDC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	62 min
Jul 4, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	61 min
Jul 4, 8:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	42 min
Jul 4, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	63 min
Jul 5, 5:35 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	40 min
Jul 5, 6:16 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	59 min
Jul 5, 6:51 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	24 min
Jul 5, 5:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	60 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.