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Tornado Warning 49, NWS North Platte, NE

June 5, 2008Holt County, Rock County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2008, 3:44 PM CDT for Holt County, Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 5, 2008, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2008, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Holt County, NE, Rock County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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 5, 4:10 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 Nnw Stuart, NE
Jun 5, 4:10 PM CDT	TORNADO	6 Ssw Stuart, NE	TORNADO MOVING 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
Jun 5, 10:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 277 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 052045
TORLBF
NEC089-149-052130-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0049.080605T2044Z-080605T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
344 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
  EASTERN ROCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 342 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF PONY LAKE...OR 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BASSETT...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 42 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  STUART AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATKINSON BY 400 PM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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 700 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4280 9873 4238 9891 4221 9946 4270 9952
      4287 9900
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 218DEG 36KT 4247 9922

$$

KAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes, Lincoln	25 min
Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Hayes	2 hr
Jun 4, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	57 min
Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Cherry, Garden, Grant, Sheridan	61 min
Jun 4, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes, Lincoln	30 min
Jun 4, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	30 min
Jun 4, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	36 min
Jun 4, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	32 min
Jun 4, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier, Lincoln	44 min
Jun 4, 8:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Hayes	2 hr
Jun 4, 9:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes	29 min
Jun 4, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	61 min
Jun 4, 9:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 4, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Lincoln	45 min
Jun 5, 12:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Frontier	4 hr
Jun 5, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	38 min
Jun 5, 6:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	55 min
Jun 5, 6:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Chase	3 hr
Jun 5, 6:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	46 min
Jun 5, 7:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes, Keith, Lincoln, Perkins	55 min
Jun 5, 8:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Perkins	4 hr
Jun 5, 8:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	66 min
Jun 5, 9:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	43 min
Jun 5, 9:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 5, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Rock	40 min
Jun 5, 9:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker, Logan, McPherson, Thomas	49 min
Jun 5, 10:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	6 hr
Jun 5, 10:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LBF	Thomas	6 hr
Jun 5, 10:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	26 min
Jun 5, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Rock	61 min
Jun 5, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes, Lincoln	23 min
Jun 5, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer, Logan, Thomas	51 min
Jun 5, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	27 min
Jun 5, 2:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	31 min
Jun 5, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown	46 min
Jun 5, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	37 min
Jun 5, 3:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	17 min
Jun 5, 3:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Brown, Rock	39 min
Jun 5, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln, Logan	19 min
Jun 5, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Garfield, Loup	36 min
Jun 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt	47 min
Jun 5, 4:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	28 min
Jun 5, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Holt	44 min
Jun 5, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt	41 min
Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	45 min
Jun 5, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd	46 min
Jun 5, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	29 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.