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Tornado Warning 47, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2004, 4:42 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 3, 2004, 4:42 PM MDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2004, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Keith County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm 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 76 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 032242 TORLBF NEC101-032315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 442 PM MDT SAT JUL 3 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 515 PM MDT * AT 440 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR KEYSTONE... OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF OGALLALA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF PAXTON AROUND 505 PM MDT SARBEN AROUND 515 PM MDT LAT...LON 4130 10164 4104 10166 4104 10128 4137 10129 $$ SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 67 min |
| Jul 2, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 24 min |
| Jul 3, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 60 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.