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Tornado Warning 45, NWS North Platte, NE

June 10, 2004Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 5:48 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 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, 5:48 PM MDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

377 
WFUS53 KLBF 102348
TORLBF
NEC031-110030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT(630 PM MDT)

* AT 644 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 26
  MILES SOUTH OF VALENTINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOOD LAKE AROUND 720 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4246 10084 4235 10021 4296 10024 4297 10090

$$

DDB

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, 4:44 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

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.