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Tornado Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE

April 23, 2008Blaine County, Custer County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2008, 6:28 PM CDT for Blaine County, Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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: Apr 23, 2008, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Blaine County, NE, Custer County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 232328
TORLBF
NEC009-041-240000-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0003.080423T2328Z-080424T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
628 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
  SOUTHERN BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BREWSTER...

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 626 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  DUNNING...OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF BREWSTER...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  7 MILES EAST OF DUNNING BY 645 PM CDT...
  BREWSTER BY 700 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.

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 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4200 10011 4195 9970 4158 9992 4162 10015
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 194DEG 26KT 4169 10000

$$

SPRINGER

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 232345
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
645 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

NEC009-041-240000-
/O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080424T0000Z/
CUSTER NE-BLAINE NE-
645 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR BLAINE
AND NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTIES...

AT 641 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAY 2 MILE
MARKER 250...OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF BREWSTER...MOVING NORTH AT 29 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 91 MILE MARKER 10 AND 9 MILES EAST OF
  DUNNING BY 700 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 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4200 10011 4195 9970 4158 9992 4162 10015
TIME...MOT...LOC 2345Z 199DEG 25KT 4170 9998

$$

SPRINGER

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 232357
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
656 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

NEC009-041-240006-
/O.EXP.KLBF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080424T0000Z/
CUSTER NE-BLAINE NE-
656 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BLAINE AND NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTIES
WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM CDT/600 PM MDT/...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR BLAINE AND NORTHWEST 
CUSTER COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 4200 10011 4195 9970 4158 9992 4162 10015
TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 199DEG 25KT 4177 9994

$$

SPRINGER

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln, Logan	55 min
Apr 23, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Lincoln	39 min
Apr 23, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Logan	63 min
Apr 23, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hayes, Lincoln	33 min
Apr 23, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	66 min
Apr 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown	30 min
Apr 23, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	29 min
Apr 23, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	32 min
Apr 23, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	65 min
Apr 23, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Loup, Rock	41 min
Apr 23, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Perkins	43 min
Apr 23, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer, Loup	54 min
Apr 23, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.