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Tornado Warning 15, NWS North Platte, NE

May 22, 2004Hooker County, Thomas County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 3:48 PM MDT for Hooker County, Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 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, 3:48 PM MDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hooker County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 22, 1:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 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 222148
TORLBF
NEC091-171-222230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT(430 PM MDT)

* AT 342 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTH
  OF SENECA...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MULLEN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  THEDFORD AROUND 510 PM CDT

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 FL 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 800 PM CDT SATURDAY
EVENING(700 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING) FOR SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4205 10115 4175 10112 4178 10033 4206 10033

$$

POWER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	64 min
May 21, 7:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	41 min
May 21, 7:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Brown	33 min
May 21, 7:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Loup, Rock	48 min
May 21, 8:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield	46 min
May 21, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	48 min
May 21, 9:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	40 min
May 21, 9:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Wheeler	42 min
May 21, 9:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	44 min
May 21, 10:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Wheeler	29 min
May 21, 10:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	43 min
May 22, 12:20 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	55 min
May 22, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	62 min
May 22, 2:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant	46 min
May 22, 2:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	63 min
May 22, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	63 min
May 22, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	62 min
May 22, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, McPherson	65 min
May 22, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
May 22, 3:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	McPherson	45 min
May 22, 4:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 min
May 22, 4:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	49 min
May 22, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	32 min
May 22, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	39 min
May 22, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	65 min
May 22, 4:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	61 min
May 22, 5:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	29 min
May 22, 5:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	57 min
May 22, 5:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	51 min
May 22, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	30 min
May 22, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	36 min
May 22, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	34 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.