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Tornado Warning 18, NWS North Platte, NE

May 22, 2004Logan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 6:16 PM CDT for Logan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Logan County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 22, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 222316
TORLBF
NEC113-222345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 611 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF
  GANDY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF STAPLETON...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN LOGAN COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 4172 10068 4142 10068 4142 10027 4172 10028

$$

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, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield	46 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, 6:18 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.