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Tornado Warning 82, NWS North Platte, NE

August 13, 2008Deuel County, Garden County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2008, 6:44 PM MDT for Deuel County, Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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: Aug 13, 2008, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2008, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 161 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 858 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 140044
TORLBF
NEC049-069-140115-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0082.080814T0044Z-080814T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
644 PM MDT WED AUG 13 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL DEUEL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA...
  SOUTH CENTRAL GARDEN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 639 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 27 AND 9 MILE ROAD...OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF CHAPPELL...MOVING EAST AT 14 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN DEUEL COUNTY AT 700 PM MDT
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN DEUEL COUNTY AT 710 PM MDT

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 4126 10216 4109 10218 4118 10240 4134 10235
TIME...MOT...LOC 0044Z 291DEG 12KT 4121 10230

$$

KAR

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 140108
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
808 PM CDT WED AUG 13 2008

NEC049-069-140117-
/O.EXP.KLBF.TO.W.0082.000000T0000Z-080814T0115Z/
DEUEL NE-GARDEN NE-
707 PM MDT WED AUG 13 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL GARDEN AND NORTH CENTRAL 
DEUEL COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM MDT/...

THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH DEVELOPED A TORNADO HAD MOVED EAST OUT OF THE 
WARNED AREA AND A TORNADO IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. 

LAT...LON 4126 10216 4109 10218 4118 10240 4134 10235
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 291DEG 12KT 4118 10220

$$

KAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden, Keith	48 min
Aug 13, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	46 min
Aug 13, 6:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt, Wheeler	42 min
Aug 13, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha	49 min
Aug 13, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Grant, Hooker	25 min
Aug 13, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	48 min
Aug 13, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Keith, Perkins	63 min
Aug 13, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	48 min
Aug 13, 7:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant, Hooker, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson and 1 more	54 min
Aug 13, 8:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Chase	32 min
Aug 13, 8:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson	66 min
Aug 13, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	56 min
Aug 14, 2:33 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	LBF	Custer, Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln	18 hr

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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.