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Tornado Warning 69, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2003, 5:53 PM MDT for Arthur County, McPherson 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, 5:53 PM MDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2003, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Arthur County, NE, McPherson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
205 WFUS53 KLBF 212353 TORLBF NEC005-117-220030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 652 PM CDT MON JUL 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT(630 PM MDT) * AT 547 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARTHUR...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FARM AND RANGELANDS OF FAR EASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY AND WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING(900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4172 10168 4143 10169 4143 10103 4173 10102 $$ BUTTLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 4:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 43 min |
| Jul 21, 5:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 5:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 5:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 37 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.