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Tornado Warning 61, NWS North Platte, NE

July 15, 2004Wheeler County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2004, 7:46 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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 15, 2004, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wheeler County, NE

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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 2128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 10.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 160046
TORLBF
NEC183-160130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 743 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 19 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF BARTLETT...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELGIN...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  7 MILES EAST OF BARTLETT AROUND 830 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.

LAT...LON 4207 9830 4208 9862 4175 9862 4175 9830

$$

POWER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	46 min
Jul 15, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Perkins	65 min
Jul 15, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes	55 min
Jul 15, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	60 min
Jul 15, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	64 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.