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Tornado Warning 28, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2007, 3:34 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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
- May 4, 2007, 3:34 PM CDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2007, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Holt County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 4:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 13 Se Atkinson, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 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 042034 TORLBF NEC089-042115- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0028.070504T2034Z-070504T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 334 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 333 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR AMELIA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ONEILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAMBERS BY 345 PM CDT... 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 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4210 9919 4209 9881 4234 9854 4246 9893 $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KLBF 042049 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 349 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2007 NEC089-042115- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-070504T2115Z/ HOLT NE- 349 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY... AT 343 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR AMELIA...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ONEILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HIGHWAY 281 MILE MARKER 170 BY 400 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4210 9919 4209 9881 4234 9854 4246 9893 $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LBF | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Frontier and 10 more | 58 hr |
| May 4, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 51 min |
| May 4, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 25 min |
| May 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 34 min |
| May 4, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 51 min |
| May 4, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 41 min |
| May 4, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 24 min |
| May 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 45 min |
| May 4, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 67 min |
| May 4, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 44 min |
| May 4, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 23 min |
| May 4, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 48 min |
| May 4, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 47 min |
| May 4, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 67 min |
| May 4, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 29 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.