Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 15, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2007, 5:42 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 2, 2007, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2007, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 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), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:45 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 94 | 6 N Ogallala, NE | 94 MPH WIND GUST AND QUARTER OF AN INCH OF MUSHY HAIL AT ARTHUR BAY...NORTH SIDE OF LAKE MCCONAUGHY. |
| Apr 2, 6:12 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Paxton, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 2, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 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 022342 TORLBF NEC101-030015- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0015.070402T2342Z-070403T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 542 PM MDT MON APR 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OGALLALA... * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 541 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LEMOYNE... OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGALLALA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 9 MILES NORTH OF OGALLALA BY 550 PM MDT... KEYSTONE AND 7 MILES NORTH OF ROSCOE BY 555 PM MDT... SARBEN AND PAXTON BY 610 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4137 10197 4107 10189 4105 10128 4133 10131 $$ BUTTLER
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KLBF 030001 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 700 PM CDT MON APR 2 2007 NEC101-030015- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-070403T0015Z/ KEITH NE- 600 PM MDT MON APR 2 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR KEITH COUNTY... AT 556 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR KEYSTONE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF OGALLALA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 MILE MARKER 140 BY 610 PM MDT... SARBEN AND PAXTON BY 615 PM MDT... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4137 10197 4107 10189 4105 10128 4133 10131 $$ BUTTLER
000 WWUS53 KLBF 030022 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 721 PM CDT MON APR 2 2007 NEC101-030031- /O.EXP.KLBF.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-070403T0015Z/ KEITH NE- 621 PM MDT MON APR 2 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR KEITH COUNTY EXPIRES AT 615 PM MDT... THE TORNADO WARNING FOR KEITH COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EASTERN KEITH AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT (715 PM MDT). A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4137 10197 4107 10189 4105 10128 4133 10131 $$ BUTTLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 21 min |
| Apr 2, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 66 min |
| Apr 2, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 63 min |
| Apr 2, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel, Garden | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 52 min |
| Apr 2, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 44 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.