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Tornado Warning 69, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2004, 7:23 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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 23, 2004, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 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 240023
TORLBF
NEC041-240115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
723 PM CDT MON AUG 23 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 722 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF
ANSELMO...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF BREWSTER...MOVING EAST AT 5
MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
6 MILES NORTH OF ANSELMO BY 735 PM CDT
MILBURN BY 815 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.
LAT...LON 4171 9958 4164 9976 4164 9979 4158 9995
4166 9999 4173 10006 4173 9954 4172 9952
$$
MASEKThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 52 min |
| Aug 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 28 min |
| Aug 23, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 67 min |
| Aug 24, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 66 min |
| Aug 24, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 64 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.