Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 49, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2004, 5:55 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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 5, 2004, 5:55 PM MDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 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), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1348 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 052355 TORLBF NEC031-060030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 654 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 654 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROWNLEE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES WEST OF AINSWORTH... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY AROUND 710 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. LAT...LON 4279 10022 4253 10076 4210 10054 4210 10018 $$ BUTTLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 61 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.