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Tornado Warning 15, NWS North Platte, NE

June 4, 2005Keith County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 12:34 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 4, 2005, 12:34 PM MDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2005, 1:00 PM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Keith County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 4, 12:25 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 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 041834
TORLBF
NEC101-041900-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0015.050604T1834Z-050604T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1234 PM MDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 100 PM MDT

* AT 1229 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  KEYSTONE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF OGALLALA...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KEYSTONE BY 1240 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4138 10191 4103 10165 4103 10127 4138 10132

$$

SPRINGER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 041850
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
149 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

NEC101-041900-
/O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050604T1900Z/
KEITH NE-
1249 PM MDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 PM MDT FOR EASTERN KEITH
COUNTY...

AT 1244 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR KEYSTONE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
OGALLALA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  KEYSTONE UNTIL 1 PM MDT

IF SEVERE WEATHER WAS OBSERVED...PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM PASS THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NORTH PLATTE.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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 4138 10186 4102 10147 4104 10128 4138 10132

$$

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 8:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 3, 11:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	6 hr
Jun 4, 12:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	56 min
Jun 4, 1:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith	30 min
Jun 4, 1:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur	64 min
Jun 4, 1:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Arthur, McPherson	45 min
Jun 4, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	McPherson	60 min
Jun 4, 2:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson	33 min
Jun 4, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan, McPherson, Thomas	61 min
Jun 4, 4:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Blaine	27 min
Jun 4, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	61 min
Jun 4, 4:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Blaine	32 min
Jun 4, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	62 min
Jun 4, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	65 min
Jun 4, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Rock	63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.