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Tornado Warning 46, NWS North Platte, NE

June 10, 2004Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2004, 7:14 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 12 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: 2590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 12.3

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The text

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

429 
WFUS53 KLBF 110014
TORLBF
NEC111-110100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BRADY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES WEST OF GOTHENBURG...MOVING
  NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BRADY AROUND 735 PM CDT
  MAXWELL AROUND 740 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 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. A TORNADO
WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4119 10079 4070 10051 4072 10025 4138 10026

$$

KAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Thomas	51 min
Jun 10, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker	45 min
Jun 10, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	29 min
Jun 10, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, Thomas	44 min
Jun 10, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	65 min
Jun 10, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Garfield, Loup	44 min
Jun 10, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Rock	55 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.