Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 53, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2007, 8:10 PM CDT for Brown County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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
- May 31, 2007, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2007, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brown County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 010111 TORLBF NEC017-010145- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0053.070601T0110Z-070601T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 810 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF AINSWORTH... * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 806 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AINSWORTH...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... AINSWORTH BY 815 PM CDT... LONG PINE BY 830 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. LAT...LON 4257 10004 4241 9997 4245 9968 4271 9968 $$ KAR
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KLBF 010126 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 825 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 NEC017-010145- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-070601T0145Z/ BROWN NE- 825 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY... AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE WEAK ROTATION AND A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAY 7 MILE MARKER 40...OR ABOUT NEAR AINSWORTH...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LONG PINE AND 9 MILES SOUTH OF KELLER PARK STATE RECREATION AREA BY 835 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4257 10004 4241 9997 4245 9968 4271 9968 $$ KAR
000 WWUS53 KLBF 010142 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 841 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 NEC017-010151- /O.EXP.KLBF.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-070601T0145Z/ BROWN NE- 841 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 845 PM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY HAD WEAKEN AND NO LONGER SHOWED ROTATION. LAT...LON 4257 10004 4241 9997 4245 9968 4271 9968 $$ KAR
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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.