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Tornado Warning 43, NWS North Platte, NE

June 10, 2004Arthur County, McPherson County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 4:44 PM MDT for Arthur County, McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Arthur County, NE, McPherson County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.

605 
WFUS53 KLBF 102244
TORLBF
NEC005-117-102345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT(545 PM MDT)

* AT 440 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  SOUTHEASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  ARTHUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY AROUND 600 PM CDT
  RURAL CENTRAL MCPHERSON COUNTY AROUND 620 PM CDT
  RURAL NORTHERN MCPHERSON COUNTY AROUND 640 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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 4166 10168 4141 10165 4141 10098 4171 10098

$$

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, 4:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur	36 min
Jun 10, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	56 min
Jun 10, 4:55 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

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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.