Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 7, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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
- May 6, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:17 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 3 S Curtis, NE | |
| May 6, 7:25 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 4 Sw Stockville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 062341 TORLBF NEC063-070030- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0007.080506T2341Z-080507T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 641 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CURTIS... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 638 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR MAYWOOD...OR NEAR CURTIS...MOVING EAST AT 29 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... STOCKVILLE BY 705 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4067 10014 4040 10021 4058 10068 4070 10065 TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 291DEG 25KT 4062 10056 $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KLBF 062357 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 656 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 NEC063-070030- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080507T0030Z/ FRONTIER NE- 656 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR FRONTIER COUNTY... AT 655 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED AROUND 7 MILES SOUTH OF CURTIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 26 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... STOCKVILLE BY 705 PM CDT... HIGHWAY 18 MILE MARKER 20 BY 725 PM CDT... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4067 10014 4040 10021 4058 10068 4070 10065 TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 294DEG 23KT 4057 10045 $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 50 min |
| May 6, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 42 min |
| May 6, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 47 min |
| May 6, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 51 min |
| May 6, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 38 min |
| May 6, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 47 min |
| May 6, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 38 min |
| May 6, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 51 min |
| May 6, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 46 min |
| May 6, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 6, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 37 min |
| May 6, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 46 min |
| May 6, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 24 min |
| May 6, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 50 min |
| May 6, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln | 44 min |
| May 6, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 50 min |
| May 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 30 min |
| May 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 15 min |
| May 6, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Wheeler | 56 min |
| May 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 45 min |
| May 6, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 26 min |
| May 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 30 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.