Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2012, 6:34 PM CDT for Blaine County, Custer County, Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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
- Apr 14, 2012, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blaine County, NE, Custer County, NE, Loup County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
359 WFUS53 KLBF 142334 TORLBF NEC009-041-115-150000- /O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0013.120414T2334Z-120415T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 634 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... NORTH CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA... SOUTHWESTERN LOUP COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 632 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ANSELMO...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MILBURN AND MILBURN DIVERSION DAM STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA AROUND 650 PM CDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. 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 4188 9988 4184 9942 4150 9976 4158 10001 TIME...MOT...LOC 2334Z 209DEG 28KT 4162 9984 $$ STOPPKOTTE
1 follow-up statement
957 WWUS53 KLBF 142342 SVSLBF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 642 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 NEC009-041-115-150000- /O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120415T0000Z/ BLAINE NE-CUSTER NE-LOUP NE- 642 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUP...NORTH CENTRAL CUSTER AND SOUTHEASTERN BLAINE COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 641 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. A TORNADO MAY DEVELOP AT ANY TIME. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ANSELMO...OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF BREWSTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MILBURN AND MILBURN DIVERSION DAM STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA AROUND 650 PM CDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 4188 9988 4184 9942 4150 9976 4158 10001 TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 219DEG 31KT 4168 9981 $$ STOPPKOTTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 54 min |
| Apr 14, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Wheeler | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 3:14 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 31 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan, McPherson | 32 min |
| Apr 14, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 22 min |
| Apr 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Logan | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 5:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LBF | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 16 min |
| Apr 14, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 51 min |
| Apr 14, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Apr 14, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 6:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.