Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 56, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2007, 9:36 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 6, 2007, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2007, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 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), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 070236 TORLBF NEC041-070315- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0056.070607T0236Z-070607T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 936 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BROKEN BOW... * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 933 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CALLAWAY... OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MERNA BY 950 PM CDT... BROKEN BOW BY 955 PM CDT... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEISSERT BY 1005 PM CDT... 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GATES BY 1010 PM CDT... SARGENT BY 1015 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 300 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4111 10020 4106 9965 4173 9923 4173 10002 $$ BUTTLER/ODER
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KLBF 070249 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 949 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007 NEC041-070315- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0056.000000T0000Z-070607T0315Z/ CUSTER NE- 949 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR CUSTER COUNTY... AT 943 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CALLAWAY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BROKEN BOW BY 955 PM CDT... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEISSERT BY 1010 PM CDT... 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SARGENT BY 1015 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4111 10020 4106 9965 4173 9923 4173 10002 $$ BUTTLER/ODER
000 WWUS53 KLBF 070307 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1006 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007 NEC041-070316- /O.EXP.KLBF.TO.W.0056.000000T0000Z-070607T0315Z/ CUSTER NE- 1006 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CUSTER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1015 PM CDT... THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CUSTER COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THE STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. IF SEVERE WEATHER WAS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND HAVE THEM RELAY THE INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4111 10020 4106 9965 4173 9923 4173 10002 $$ BUTTLER/ODER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Logan | 59 min |
| Jun 6, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha, Rock | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Loup | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 21 min |
| Jun 6, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 4:02 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 7, 10:18 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | LBF | Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Keith | 6 hr |
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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.