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Tornado Warning 67, NWS North Platte, NE

August 22, 2004Loup County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2004, 6:26 PM CDT for Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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 22, 2004, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Loup County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -352 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 222326
TORLBF
NEC115-230000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
626 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LOUP COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL
  LOUP COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF TAYLOR...MOVING NORTHWEST
  AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN LOUP COUNTY AT 640 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 4190 9952 4177 9922 4207 9924 4206 9965

$$

KAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	28 min
Aug 22, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	39 min
Aug 22, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	43 min
Aug 22, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	45 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.