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Tornado Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE

May 22, 2004Hooker County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 2:42 PM MDT for Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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 22, 2004, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hooker County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2004-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2004-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -191 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-93 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.

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 222042
TORLBF
NEC091-222145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
242 PM MDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HOOKER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 239 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME
  SOUTHWESTERN HOOKER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  ARTHUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL WESTERN HOOKER COUNTY AROUND 300 PM MDT
  RURAL CENTRAL HOOKER COUNTY AROUND 310 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 BLATH OF 
  BAD AXE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HELENA...8 MILES SOUTH OF PORT HOPE AND 8 MILES NORTH OF WHITE ROCK
  AROUND 455 PM EDT

PEOPLE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF THE TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 4391 8305 4369 8304 4370 8262 4396 8270

$$

SC / BT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry64 min
May 21, 7:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown41 min
May 21, 7:27 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFBrown33 min
May 21, 7:57 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLoup, Rock48 min
May 21, 8:44 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFGarfield46 min
May 21, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden48 min
May 21, 9:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant40 min
May 21, 9:18 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFWheeler42 min
May 21, 9:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden44 min
May 21, 10:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFWheeler29 min
May 21, 10:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur43 min
May 22, 12:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker55 min
May 22, 1:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden62 min
May 22, 2:14 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFArthur, Grant46 min
May 22, 2:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith, Perkins63 min
May 22, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHayes62 min
May 22, 3:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur, McPherson65 min
May 22, 3:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln62 min
May 22, 3:45 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFMcPherson45 min
May 22, 3:48 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFHooker, Thomas42 min
May 22, 4:11 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln64 min
May 22, 4:26 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLogan49 min
May 22, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFThomas32 min
May 22, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine39 min
May 22, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase, Hayes65 min
May 22, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster61 min
May 22, 5:16 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLogan29 min
May 22, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln57 min
May 22, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFCuster51 min
May 22, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine30 min
May 22, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier36 min
May 22, 5:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup34 min

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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.