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Tornado Warning 40, NWS North Platte, NE

June 10, 2004Deuel County, Keith County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 3:07 PM MDT for Deuel County, Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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: Jun 10, 2004, 3:07 PM MDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Deuel County, NE, Keith County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
Jun 10, 1:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

973 
WFUS53 KLBF 102107
TORLBF
NEC049-101-102145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
306 PM MDT THU JUN 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DEUEL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
  KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 304 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO NEAR BIG SPRINGS...OR ABOUT OVER BIG SPRINGS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRULE AROUND 335 PM MDT
  6 MILES SOUTH OF LEMOYNE AND 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA AROUND
  345 PM MDT

DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE
PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES BLOCK
TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE STORMS PATH AND
TO SHELTER. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO...GET OUT OF
YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST RESORT.

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.

LAT...LON 4120 10228 4100 10226 4105 10168 4138 10177 4122 10204

$$

JWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 1:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	42 min
Jun 10, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	46 min
Jun 10, 2:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Deuel	44 min
Jun 10, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden	36 min
Jun 10, 3:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	30 min
Jun 10, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	51 min
Jun 10, 4:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur	36 min
Jun 10, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	56 min
Jun 10, 4:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur, McPherson	61 min
Jun 10, 4:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	50 min
Jun 10, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	62 min
Jun 10, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	52 min
Jun 10, 5:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	44 min
Jun 10, 5:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	43 min
Jun 10, 5:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	40 min
Jun 10, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	46 min
Jun 10, 5:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	42 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.