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Tornado Warning 42, NWS North Platte, NE

June 10, 2004Arthur County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 4:09 PM MDT for Arthur 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: Jun 10, 2004, 4:09 PM MDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Arthur County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.

813 
WFUS53 KLBF 102209
TORLBF
NEC005-102245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT

* AT 407 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTH
  OF ARTHUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARTHUR AROUND 445 PM MDT

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 4162 10197 4141 10196 4140 10142 4164 10142

$$

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, 3:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Deuel, Keith	38 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, 4:34 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.