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Tornado Warning 15, NWS North Platte, NE

July 26, 2006Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2006, 4:59 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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: Jul 26, 2006, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2006, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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 262201
TORLBF
NEC111-262230-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0015.060726T2159Z-060726T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
459 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 450 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 9
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE MALONEY STATE RECREATION AREA...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LAKE MALONEY STATE RECREATION AREA BY 530 PM CDT...

SEVERAL OTHER FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE DEVELOPING IN WEAK THUNDERSTORMS 
ACROSS PARTS OF LINCOLN COUNTY. ANY OF THESE COULD TOUCH DOWN AND 
PRODUCE A WEAK TORNADO.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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 4107 10122 4089 10101 4072 10023 4123 10025
      4140 10062

$$

CDC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	40 min
Jul 26, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	32 min
Jul 26, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	51 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.