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Tornado Warning 19, NWS North Platte, NE

June 6, 2009Hooker County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2009, 5:13 PM MDT for Hooker County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 4 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 6, 2009, 5:13 PM MDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2009, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Hooker County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Jun 6, 5:15 PM MDT	HAIL 1.75	3 Sw Mullen, NE
Jun 6, 5:21 PM MDT	HAIL 0.5	3 S Mullen, NE
Jun 6, 5:22 PM MDT	HAIL 1.75	3 S Mullen, NE
Jun 6, 5:30 PM MDT	HAIL 1.5	3 S Mullen, 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 6, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLBF 062313
TORLBF
NEC091-070000-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0019.090606T2313Z-090607T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
513 PM MDT SAT JUN 6 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HOOKER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 511 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HIGHWAY 97 CROSSING THE DISMAL RIVER...OR 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF MULLEN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HIGHWAY 97 MILE MARKER 60 BY 530 PM MDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

&&

LAT...LON 4203 10084 4197 10084 4176 10097 4189 10129
      4205 10129
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 269DEG 20KT 4199 10118

$$

KAR

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KLBF 062340
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
540 PM MDT SAT JUN 6 2009

NEC091-070000-
/O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-090607T0000Z/
HOOKER NE-
540 PM MDT SAT JUN 6 2009

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL HOOKER COUNTY...

AT 539 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
HIGHWAY 97 MILE MARKER 60...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MULLEN...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL AREAS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MULLEN AT 550 PM MDT

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.

&&

LAT...LON 4203 10084 4197 10084 4180 10094 4193 10108
      4204 10106 4204 10101 4203 10100 4203 10085
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 270DEG 26KT 4199 10093

$$

KAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	46 min
Jun 5, 6:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry, Grant	44 min
Jun 5, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	46 min
Jun 5, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker, Thomas	52 min
Jun 5, 6:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Grant, Hooker	36 min
Jun 5, 6:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant	46 min
Jun 5, 7:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	47 min
Jun 5, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Cherry, Thomas	39 min
Jun 5, 7:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden, Keith	46 min
Jun 5, 8:05 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garden	40 min
Jun 5, 8:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garden	45 min
Jun 5, 8:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith, Lincoln	49 min
Jun 5, 9:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden, Keith	47 min
Jun 5, 9:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	45 min
Jun 5, 9:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	39 min
Jun 5, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer	46 min
Jun 5, 10:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	48 min
Jun 5, 10:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	55 min
Jun 5, 10:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith, Lincoln	50 min
Jun 5, 10:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 6, 12:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	58 min
Jun 6, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Grant	57 min
Jun 6, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	48 min
Jun 6, 4:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Grant, Hooker	36 min
Jun 6, 5:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Keith	40 min
Jun 6, 5:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker, Thomas	43 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.