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Tornado Warning 17, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2011, 5:42 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 16, 2011, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2011, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 16, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 2064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
868 WFUS53 KLBF 162342 TORLBF NEC031-170015- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0017.110616T2342Z-110617T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 542 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 540 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAY 61 CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER...OR 25 MILES EAST OF GORDON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR... HIGHWAY 61 CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER AROUND 550 PM MDT. 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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE. && LAT...LON 4296 10164 4279 10135 4270 10171 4275 10183 TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 232DEG 15KT 4276 10170 $$ JACOBS
2 follow-up statements
704 WWUS53 KLBF 162358 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 658 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 NEC031-170015- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-110617T0015Z/ CHERRY NE- 558 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM MDT... AT 555 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HIGHWAY 61 CROSSING THE NIOBRARA RIVER...OR 31 MILES EAST OF GORDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE. && LAT...LON 4296 10164 4279 10135 4272 10164 4279 10174 TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 232DEG 15KT 4279 10158 $$ JACOBS
678 WWUS53 KLBF 170016 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 716 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011 NEC031-170026- /O.EXP.KLBF.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-110617T0015Z/ CHERRY NE- 616 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE. LAT...LON 4296 10164 4279 10135 4272 10164 4279 10174 TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 232DEG 15KT 4279 10158 $$ JACOBS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:40 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 42 min |
| Jun 16, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Garden, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 5:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 26 min |
| Jun 16, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Grant, Sheridan | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.