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Tornado Warning 9, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2009, 6:54 PM MDT for Grant County, Hooker 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 5, 2009, 6:54 PM MDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2009, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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, 7:10 PM MDT | HAIL 0.5 | 17 W Mullen, NE | |
| Jun 5, 7:28 PM MDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 15 Sw 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 5, 2:48 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:06 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS53 KLBF 060056 CCA SVSLBF NEC075-091-060130- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0009.090606T0054Z-090606T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 656 PM MDT FRI JUN 5 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... WESTERN HOOKER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 730 PM MDT * AT 651 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CARR LAKE...OR 23 MILES WEST OF MULLEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. AT 652 PM CDT TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORT A WALL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EAST CODY LAKE BY 730 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. && LAT...LON 4204 10128 4174 10098 4174 10147 4207 10160 TIME...MOT...LOC 0054Z 310DEG 23KT 4196 10146 $$ TAYLOR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KLBF 060112 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 712 PM MDT FRI JUN 5 2009 NEC075-091-060130- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-090606T0130Z/ HOOKER NE-GRANT NE- 712 PM MDT FRI JUN 5 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR EASTERN GRANT AND WESTERN HOOKER COUNTIES... AT 710 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARR LAKE...OR 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MULLEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EAST CODY LAKE BY 725 PM MDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. && LAT...LON 4204 10128 4174 10098 4174 10147 4207 10160 TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 310DEG 23KT 4189 10135 $$ TAYLOR
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, 6:59 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, 5:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 47 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 |
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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.