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Tornado Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE

June 17, 2014Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2014, 6:16 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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, 6:16 PM MDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2014, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.5 in

County Cherry County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 823 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

250 
WFUS53 KLBF 180016
TORLBF
NEC031-180045-
/O.NEW.KLBF.TO.W.0013.140618T0016Z-140618T0045Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 613 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 23 MILES NORTH OF WHITMAN...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND TENNIS BALL 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 CENTRAL
  CHERRY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SPECKEL MEIR
  LAKE.

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.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL. TAKE 
COVER IN A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW!

&&

LAT...LON 4235 10132 4221 10150 4238 10160 4242 10156
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 303DEG 11KT 4237 10154

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.50IN

$$

JACOBS

1 follow-up statement

439 
WWUS53 KLBF 180031
SVSLBF

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

NEC031-180045-
/O.CON.KLBF.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140618T0045Z/
CHERRY NE-
631 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHERRY
COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM MDT...

AT 627 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 21 MILES NORTH OF WHITMAN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG BALL 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...
SPECKEL MEIR LAKE.

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.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A
BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW!

&&

LAT...LON 4237 10158 4241 10155 4235 10132 4221 10150
TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 303DEG 11KT 4234 10148

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN

$$

JACOBS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	49 min
Jun 17, 6:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Cherry	32 min
Jun 17, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	47 min
Jun 17, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker	45 min
Jun 17, 8:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Hooker	45 min
Jun 17, 8:04 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	26 min
Jun 17, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	48 min
Jun 17, 8:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hooker	30 min
Jun 18, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	52 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.