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Tornado Warning 68, NWS North Platte, NE

July 21, 2003Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2003, 5:38 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 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 21, 2003, 5:38 PM MDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2003, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
37 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), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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 12:00Z on 2003-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 36 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2003-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-447 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 212338
TORLBF
NEC031-220015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
538 PM MDT MON JUL 21 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 532 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
  ROTATION OVER WEST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 28 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF GORDON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FARM AND RANGELANDS OF WEST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY
  FARM AND RANGELANDS OF SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4275 10114 4271 10205 4210 10201 4211 10112

$$
POWER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, Keith44 min
Jul 21, 4:47 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeith43 min
Jul 21, 5:21 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFGrant, Hooker39 min
Jul 21, 5:27 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeith, Perkins63 min
Jul 21, 5:53 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFArthur, McPherson37 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.