Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2004, 9:44 PM CDT for Garfield County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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
- May 21, 2004, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Garfield County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 2197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 19.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
797 WFUS53 KLBF 220244 TORLBF NEC071-220330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 944 PM CDT FRI MAY 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GARFIELD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 940 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTH OF BURWELL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL CENTRAL GARFIELD COUNTY AROUND 1000 PM CDT RURAL EASTERN GARFIELD COUNTY AROUND 1020 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4207 9922 4175 9921 4175 9876 4208 9877 $$ JWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 64 min |
| May 21, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 41 min |
| May 21, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown | 33 min |
| May 21, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 48 min |
| May 21, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 48 min |
| May 21, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 40 min |
| May 21, 10:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 42 min |
| May 21, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 44 min |
| May 21, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 29 min |
| May 21, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 43 min |
| May 22, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 55 min |
| May 22, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 62 min |
| May 22, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 46 min |
| May 22, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 63 min |
| May 22, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 63 min |
| May 22, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 62 min |
| May 22, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 65 min |
| May 22, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| May 22, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | McPherson | 45 min |
| May 22, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 42 min |
| May 22, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| May 22, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 49 min |
| May 22, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 32 min |
| May 22, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 39 min |
| May 22, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 65 min |
| May 22, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| May 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan | 29 min |
| May 22, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 57 min |
| May 22, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 51 min |
| May 22, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 30 min |
| May 22, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 36 min |
| May 22, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 34 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.