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Tornado Warning 55, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2009, 4:09 PM MDT for Deuel County, Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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 26, 2009, 4:09 PM MDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2009, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Deuel County, NE, Keith County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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 26, 4:15 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | 6 W Big Springs, NE | |
| Jun 26, 4:41 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 1 N Brule, NE | NICKLE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH OF BRULE. |
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 26, 2:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 262209 TORLBF NEC049-101-262245- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0055.090626T2209Z-090626T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 409 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DEUEL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BIG SPRINGS... SOUTHWESTERN KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 445 PM MDT * AT 408 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BIG SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BRULE BY 440 PM MDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && LAT...LON 4125 10185 4100 10183 4099 10221 4113 10225 TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 243DEG 17KT 4104 10207 $$ SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 56 min |
| Jun 25, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 8:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | LBF | Chase, Hayes, Keith, Lincoln, Perkins | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel, Keith | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 3:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel, Garden, Keith | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 3:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Keith, McPherson | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 4:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 5:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 5:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Keith, McPherson | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden, Grant | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel, Garden | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Garden, Grant, Sheridan | 35 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.