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Tornado Warning 24, NWS North Platte, NE

May 29, 2004Custer County, Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 4:25 PM CDT for Custer County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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 29, 2004, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Custer County, NE, Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -656 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 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.

277 
WFUS53 KLBF 292125
TORLBF
NEC041-111-292200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
424 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 418 PM CDT...A TORNADO ON THE BORDER OF LINCOLN AND DAWSON...OR 
ABOUT OVER GOTHENBURG...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY AROUND 440 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 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 4091 10046 4088 10024 4106 10024 4107 9980
          4142 9982 4137 10045

$$

CAB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	36 min
May 29, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	61 min
May 29, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	63 min
May 29, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	54 min
May 29, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	56 min
May 29, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Loup	36 min
May 29, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	27 min
May 29, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	55 min
May 29, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan, Loup	35 min
May 29, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	33 min
May 29, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Logan	66 min
May 29, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Blaine	33 min
May 29, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	29 min
May 29, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	58 min
May 29, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	32 min
May 29, 6:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Holt	3 hr
May 29, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Blaine	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.