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Tornado Warning 26, NWS North Platte, NE

May 29, 2004Loup County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 5:24 PM CDT for Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Loup County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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 29, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.

676 
WFUS53 KLBF 292224
TORLBF
NEC115-292300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LOUP COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF
  ALMERIA...OR ABOUT OVER TAYLOR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN LOUP COUNTY AROUND 540 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 4177 9969 4177 9923 4207 9922 4208 9966

$$

SPRINGER

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, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	35 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, 5:33 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.