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Tornado Warning 59, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 6, 2011, 6:01 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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
- Oct 6, 2011, 6:01 PM MDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2011, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 6:05 PM MDT | HAIL 1.5 | Merriman, NE | QUARTER TO PING BALL SIZED HAIL OCCCURED IN MERRIMAN. RESCUE UNIT REPORTED HIGHWAY GREEN FROM STRIPPED LEAVES. |
| Oct 6, 6:07 PM MDT | HAIL 1.5 | Merriman, NE | VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS ALSO REPORTED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
717 WFUS53 KLBF 070001 TORLBF NEC031-070030- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0059.111007T0001Z-111007T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 601 PM MDT THU OCT 6 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 630 PM MDT * AT 557 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 61 AND SHADBOLT ROAD...OR 23 MILES EAST OF GORDON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MERRIMAN AROUND 610 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. && LAT...LON 4270 10169 4274 10187 4300 10176 4300 10150 TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 201DEG 48KT 4280 10173 $$ JACOBS
2 follow-up statements
058 WWUS53 KLBF 070009 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 609 PM MDT THU OCT 6 2011 NEC031-070030- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-111007T0030Z/ CHERRY NE- 609 PM MDT THU OCT 6 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM MDT... AT 606 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MERRIMAN...OR 27 MILES EAST OF GORDON...MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY INCLUDING THE TOWN OF MERRIMAN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 4280 10165 4285 10178 4300 10176 4300 10150 TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 201DEG 48KT 4290 10166 $$ JACOBS
044 WWUS53 KLBF 070020 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 620 PM MDT THU OCT 6 2011 NEC031-070031- /O.EXP.KLBF.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-111007T0030Z/ CHERRY NE- 620 PM MDT THU OCT 6 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM MDT... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 4280 10165 4285 10178 4300 10176 4300 10150 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 201DEG 48KT 4306 10157 $$ JACOBS
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 6:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith, McPherson, Perkins | 38 min |
| Oct 6, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson, Thomas | 38 min |
| Oct 6, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith, McPherson | 45 min |
| Oct 6, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker, Thomas | 50 min |
| Oct 6, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker | 39 min |
| Oct 6, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 45 min |
| Oct 6, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Keya Paha | 43 min |
| Oct 7, 2:50 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | LBF | Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Sheridan | 12 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:07 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Deuel and 12 more | 15 hr |
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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.