Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 85, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2007, 7:43 PM CDT for Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 9, 2007, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Holt County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:09 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | O'Neill, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 3891 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 100043 TORLBF NEC089-100115- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0085.070810T0043Z-070810T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 743 PM CDT THU AUG 9 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ONEILL... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 739 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ONEILL... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTH OF INMAN BY 800 PM CDT... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAGE 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. LAT...LON 4261 9875 4239 9878 4228 9833 4267 9834 $$ SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt | 27 min |
| Aug 10, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 1:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 41 min |
| Aug 10, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 4:00 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Arthur, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Keith and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 25 min |
| Aug 10, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 51 min |
| Aug 10, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 45 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.