Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 63, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2007, 8:00 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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 21, 2007, 8:00 PM MDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2007, 8:43 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 21, 3:37 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 220201 TORLBF NEC031-220300- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0063.070622T0200Z-070622T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 800 PM MDT THU JUN 21 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 900 PM MDT(1000 PM CDT) * AT 758 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF SCHOOLHOUSE LAKE...OR ABOUT 37 MILES NORTH OF MULLEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF HIGHWAY 97 CROSSING THE NORTH LOUP RIVER BY 845 PM MDT... 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. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING(MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4274 10143 4220 10128 4234 10046 4287 10064 $$ KAR
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KLBF 220218 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 918 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007 NEC031-220300- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0063.000000T0000Z-070622T0300Z/ CHERRY NE- 818 PM MDT THU JUN 21 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT(1000 PM CDT) FOR CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY... AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HIGHWAY 97 MILE MARKER 100...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTHEAST OF MULLEN... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HIGHWAY 83 CROSSING GOOSE CREEK BY 940 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING(MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4274 10143 4220 10128 4234 10046 4287 10064 $$ KAR
000 WWUS53 KLBF 220243 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 942 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007 NEC031-220252- /O.CAN.KLBF.TO.W.0063.000000T0000Z-070622T0300Z/ CHERRY NE- 842 PM MDT THU JUN 21 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY HAD WEAKENED AND NO LONGER INDICATED THE POTENTIAL FOR A TORNADO. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING(MIDNIGHT CDT FRIDAY MORNING) FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4274 10143 4220 10128 4234 10046 4287 10064 $$ KAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 6:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Rock | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 7:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 7:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 23 min |
| Jun 21, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 7:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 51 min |
| Jun 21, 7:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 24 min |
| Jun 21, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Grant | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 8:30 PM MDT | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.