Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 23, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2008, 6:09 PM MDT for Cherry County, Hooker County, Thomas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 3, 2008, 6:09 PM MDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2008, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cherry County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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 3, 6:45 PM MDT | HAIL 1.5 | 7 Se Mullen, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 040009 TORLBF NEC031-091-171-040100- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0023.080604T0009Z-080604T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 609 PM MDT TUE JUN 3 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... NORTHWESTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... NORTHERN HOOKER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MULLEN... * UNTIL 700 PM MDT 800 PM CDT * AT 606 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF MULLEN...MOVING EAST AT 42 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MULLEN BY 625 PM MDT... SENECA BY 740 PM CDT... 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. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. 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 4224 10079 4196 10064 4195 10127 4206 10137 TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 257DEG 37KT 4200 10122 $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker, Thomas | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 6:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Logan, Thomas | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine, Thomas | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 3:17 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | LBF | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 15 more | 49 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 3:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 3:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 4:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 4:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Frontier | 84 min |
| Jun 4, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 5:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 5:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | LBF | Holt | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:22 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Chase | 113 min |
| Jun 4, 5:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 5:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 14 min |
| Jun 4, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Grant, Sheridan | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 5:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 32 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.