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Tornado Warning 59, NWS North Platte, NE

July 15, 2004Holt County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2004, 6:48 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 2004, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Holt County, NE

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 15, 6:50 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 N Page, NE	TORNADO WAS REPORTED 4 NORTH AND 1 EAST OF PAGE BY TRAINED SPOTTERS FROM EWING.
Jul 15, 6:54 PM CDT	TORNADO	8 N Orchard, NE
Jul 15, 6:54 PM CDT	TORNADO	8 N Orchard, NE
Jul 15, 7:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Ne Page, NE	IRRIGATION TOWER DESTROYED

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 15, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -468 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 152348
TORLBF
NEC089-160015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
648 PM CDT THU JUL 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 642 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  PAGE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF ONEILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF EWING 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4254 9828 4244 9848 4222 9832 4234 9807

$$

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	56 min
Jul 15, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	30 min
Jul 15, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	54 min
Jul 15, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	60 min
Jul 15, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	59 min
Jul 15, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	54 min
Jul 15, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	66 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.