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Tornado Warning 60, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2007, 8:07 PM CDT for Holt County, Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 23 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
- Jun 21, 2007, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2007, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Holt County, NE, Rock County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:07 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 4 S Newport, NE | QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED STRIPPING LEAVES OFF OF TREES. |
| Jun 21, 8:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 18 Nne Rose, NE | GOFLBALL HAIL FOR 20 MINUTES ON NORTHERN SHORE OF PONY LAKE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 3305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 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 220107 TORLBF NEC089-149-220130- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0060.070622T0107Z-070622T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 807 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... EAST CENTRAL ROCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 803 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 8 MILES SOUTH OF NEWPORT...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BASSETT... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF PONY LAKE BY 815 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 MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4261 9938 4244 9946 4227 9935 4252 9888 $$ ADO/JRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Rock | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 51 min |
| Jun 21, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 24 min |
| Jun 21, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Grant | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 45 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.