Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 32, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2011, 4:32 PM CDT for Garfield County, Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 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 26, 2011, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2011, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Garfield County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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 26, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1761 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
602 WFUS53 KLBF 262132 TORLBF NEC071-183-262200- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0032.110626T2132Z-110626T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 432 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GARFIELD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... WESTERN WHEELER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 429 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF SWAN LAKE...OR 17 MILES NORTH OF BURWELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR... FOUR CORNERS AROUND 500 PM CDT. 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 4207 9843 4182 9842 4190 9917 4208 9919 TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 279DEG 37KT 4202 9903 $$ HIRSCH
1 follow-up statement
264 WWUS53 KLBF 262149 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 449 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011 NEC071-183-262200- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-110626T2200Z/ GARFIELD NE-WHEELER NE- 449 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN WHEELER AND NORTHERN GARFIELD COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM CDT... AT 443 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OR INTENSE DOWNBURST WINDS. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE VERY STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS OR A TORNADO. THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN EXTENDS FROM 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SWAN LAKE TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURWELL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THESE DANGEROUS STORMS WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN GARFIELD AND WESTERN WHEELER COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 4207 9843 4182 9842 4190 9917 4208 9919 TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 280DEG 32KT 4200 9890 4189 9898 $$ HIRSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 9:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Cherry | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden, Grant | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Loup, Rock | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Wheeler | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 4:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Wheeler | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Wheeler | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 15 min |
| Jun 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 52 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.