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Tornado Warning 52, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2007, 4:06 PM CDT for Lincoln County, McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 31, 2007, 4:06 PM CDT (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2007, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lincoln County, NE, McPherson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 10 S Tryon, 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 31, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 312106 TORLBF NEC111-117-312145- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0052.070531T2106Z-070531T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 406 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... SOUTHEASTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 401 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES NORTH OF SUTHERLAND...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRYON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 97 MILE MARKER 20 BY 425 PM CDT... HIGHWAY 97 MILE MARKER 10 BY 430 PM CDT... 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 4131 10126 4109 10126 4133 10067 4151 10077 $$ JWS
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KLBF 312123
SVSLBF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
423 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007
NEC113-171-312145-
/O.CON.KLBF.SV.W.0189.000000T0000Z-070531T2145Z/
LOGAN NE-THOMAS NE-
423 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR THOMAS AND LOGAN COUNTIES...
AT 421 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM HIGHWAY 2 MILE MARKER 220 TO
STAPLETON...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES EAST OF THEDFORD
TO STAPLETON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
GANDY BY 430 PM CDT...
TARBOZ LAKE BY 435 PM CDT...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
LAT...LON 4208 10082 4178 10080 4174 10068 4142 10068
4142 10027 4206 10029
$$
SPRINGER
--@WWASVRWXSTACOUNTY.WWAPROD--The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LBF | Chase, Custer, Frontier, Garfield, Hayes, Holt and 4 more | 24 hr |
| May 31, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, McPherson | 39 min |
| May 31, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 41 min |
| May 31, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 45 min |
| May 31, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 52 min |
| May 31, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 119 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.