Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2005, 5:30 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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
- Apr 19, 2005, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2005, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Garden County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 192332
TORLBF
NEC069-200000-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0003.050419T2330Z-050420T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
530 PM MDT TUE APR 19 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN GARDEN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
* AT 520 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CRESCENT LAKE NWR...OR ABOUT 33 MILES EAST OF
ALLIANCE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WAS ABOUT 10 MILE NORTHEAST OF CRESENT LAKE. THIS STORM COULD ALSO
PRODUCE A TORNADO.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL NORTHERN GARDEN COUNTY AT 540 PM MDT
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
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 4168 10238 4183 10212 4199 10208 4198 10265
4170 10252
$$
CDC1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KLBF 192349
SVSLBF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
647 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2005
NEC069-200000-
/O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050420T0000Z/
GARDEN NE-
547 PM MDT TUE APR 19 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR NORTHERN GARDEN
COUNTY...
AT 540 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF
CRESCENT LAKE NWR...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARTHUR. THIS
TORNADO WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CRESENT LAKE. THIS STORM COULD ALSO
PRODUCE A TORNADO.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 4168 10238 4183 10212 4199 10208 4198 10265
4170 10252
$$
CDCThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Grant | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Sheridan | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 5:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 49 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.