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Tornado Warning 62, NWS North Platte, NE

August 2, 2004Cherry County, Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 2004, 8:38 PM MDT for Cherry County, Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 22 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: Aug 2, 2004, 8:38 PM MDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cherry County, NE, Sheridan County, NE

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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 nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 603 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 030238
TORLBF
NEC031-161-030300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
833 PM MDT MON AUG 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SHERIDAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
  CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 900 PM MDT

* AT 830 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ON HIGHWAY
  18 BETWEEN BATESLAND AND GORDON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS POSSIBLE OVER...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY AROUND 845 PM MDT   
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY AROUND 845 PM MDT

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.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SHERIDAN 
COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4298 10279 4272 10274 4273 10150 4297 10152

$$

POWER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 8:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	55 min
Aug 2, 9:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	30 min
Aug 2, 10:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	61 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.