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Tornado Warning 10, NWS North Platte, NE

June 17, 2014Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2014, 4:48 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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 17, 2014, 4:48 PM MDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2014, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.25 in

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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.

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 17, 3:53 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

377 
WFUS53 KLBF 172248
TORLBF
NEC031-172315-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0010.140617T2248Z-140617T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
448 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 444 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 22 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
           TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
           LIKELY.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL
  CHERRY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...HIGHWAY 61
  CROSSING THE SNAKE RIVER.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 61 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 191 AND 209.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 4253 10144 4237 10166 4259 10192 4272 10175
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 314DEG 11KT 4259 10175

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

JACOBS

1 follow-up statement

099 
WWUS53 KLBF 172306
SVSLBF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
606 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

NEC031-172315-
/O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-140617T2315Z/
CHERRY NE-
506 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY
UNTIL 515 PM MDT...

AT 503 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10
MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
         LIKELY.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 61 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 191 AND 206.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES. AS A LAST
RESORT...PARK YOUR VEHICLE AND STAY PUT.

&&

LAT...LON 4256 10184 4266 10174 4253 10144 4237 10166
TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 314DEG 11KT 4255 10169

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

JACOBS

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 6:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LBF	Garfield	33 min
Jun 16, 6:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	48 min
Jun 16, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Keya Paha	38 min
Jun 16, 6:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LBF	Garfield, Wheeler	33 min
Jun 16, 6:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	51 min
Jun 16, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	46 min
Jun 16, 7:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd	44 min
Jun 16, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt	43 min
Jun 17, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	42 min
Jun 17, 4:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	40 min
Jun 17, 4:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LBF	Cherry	34 min
Jun 17, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	46 min
Jun 17, 5:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LBF	Cherry	31 min
Jun 17, 5:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LBF	Cherry	34 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.