Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 9, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2010, 11:29 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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 23, 2010, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2010, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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 23, 11:51 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | North Platte, NE | THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE FAIRGROUND WHICH IS NORTH WEST OF THE CITY. THE REPORT WAS RELAYED THROUGH DISPATCH. |
| May 24, 12:02 AM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 4 E North Platte, NE | ESTIMATED 70 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED AT MILE MARKER 173 ON HIGHWAY 30. |
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 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
736 WFUS53 KLBF 240429 TORLBF NEC111-240500- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0009.100524T0429Z-100524T0500Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1129 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1127 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTH PLATTE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS HIGHWAY 97 MILE MARKER 10. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 4138 10093 4137 10057 4107 10072 4110 10096 TIME...MOT...LOC 0429Z 189DEG 41KT 4117 10082 $$ TAYLOR
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 37 min |
| May 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Frontier, Lincoln | 45 min |
| May 23, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 34 min |
| May 23, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 53 min |
| May 23, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 42 min |
| May 23, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock | 62 min |
| May 23, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 47 min |
| May 23, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock | 41 min |
| May 23, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 26 min |
| May 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 38 min |
| May 23, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 42 min |
| May 23, 11:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 24 min |
| May 23, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Keya Paha | 18 min |
| May 23, 11:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 32 min |
| May 24, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 46 min |
| May 24, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 50 min |
| May 24, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 51 min |
| May 24, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 48 min |
| May 24, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Keya Paha | 50 min |
| May 24, 4:05 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | LBF | Arthur, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Deuel and 13 more | 15 hr |
| May 24, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 25 min |
| May 24, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 30 min |
| May 24, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, Thomas | 27 min |
| May 24, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 24 min |
| May 24, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine, Cherry, Thomas | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine, Cherry, Custer, Logan, Thomas | 43 min |
| May 24, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 18 min |
| May 24, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 29 min |
| May 24, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Boyd, Keya Paha | 13 min |
| May 24, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 47 min |
| May 24, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 30 min |
| May 24, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 15 min |
| May 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 19 min |
| May 24, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha | 33 min |
| May 24, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 17 min |
| May 24, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 24 min |
| May 24, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 48 min |
| May 24, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Custer, Loup, Rock | 35 min |
| May 24, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Keith | 27 min |
| May 24, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 59 min |
| May 24, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant, Keith | 60 min |
| May 24, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes, Keith, Perkins | 56 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Sheridan | 47 min |
| May 24, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson, Perkins | 59 min |
| May 24, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 50 min |
| May 24, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker, Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 31 min |
| May 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 26 min |
| May 24, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker, Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 29 min |
| May 24, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Cherry, Hooker, Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 32 min |
| May 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 14 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.