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Tornado Warning 35, NWS North Platte, NE

May 29, 2004Brown County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 7:10 PM CDT for Brown 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, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brown County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 422 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2375 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

221 
WFUS53 KLBF 300010
TORLBF
NEC017-300045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 34 MILES SOUTH
  OF LONG PINE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF BREWSTER...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY AROUND 720 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4211 10007 4211 9969 4261 9970 4265 10005

$$

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	50 min
May 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	62 min
May 29, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	56 min
May 29, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	29 min
May 29, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	30 min
May 29, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	53 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.