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Tornado Warning 4, NWS North Platte, NE

June 7, 2006Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2006, 7:53 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2006, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2006, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 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), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 7, 8:40 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 70	12 W Callaway, NE
Jun 7, 8:40 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	12 W Callaway, NE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 1816 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 080054
TORLBF
NEC041-080130-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0004.060608T0053Z-060608T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
753 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 750 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED TORNADO 
  ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST ARNOLD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HIGHWAY 40 MILE MARKER 10 BY 815 PM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
NICKEL 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4143 9993 4129 10001 4125 10022 4138 10021
      4139 10025 4149 10024 4152 10010

$$

MASEK

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 080102
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
802 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2006

NEC041-080130-
/O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060608T0130Z/
CUSTER NE-
802 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY...

AT 759 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAY 92 MILE
MARKER 250...OR ABOUT NEAR ARNOLD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF HIGHWAY 40 MILE MARKER 10 BY 810 PM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
QUARTER 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4143 9993 4129 10001 4125 10022 4138 10021
      4140 10025 4149 10024 4152 10010

$$

MASEK

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 080116
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
816 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2006

NEC041-080130-
/O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060608T0130Z/
CUSTER NE-
816 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY...

AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAY 40 MILE
MARKER 10...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARNOLD...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
NICKEL 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4143 9993 4129 10001 4125 10022 4138 10021
      4140 10025 4149 10024 4152 10010

$$

MASEK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer	62 min
Jun 7, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan	46 min
Jun 7, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	46 min
Jun 7, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	53 min
Jun 7, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	49 min
Jun 7, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	62 min
Jun 7, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	46 min
Jun 7, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	28 min
Jun 7, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	64 min
Jun 7, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	48 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.