1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 6, 12:36 PM CST, 11 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 136 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE POPS AND WINDS TONIGHT... CURRENT WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING SHORTWAVE EDGING EAST WITH SOUTHWEST WINDS OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO TO AID IN PUSHING WARM FRONT TO THE NORTHEAST. AREAS OF FOG AND LOW CEILING ON THE RISE WITH A RAPID WARMUP EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON. 17Z HAND SURFACE ANALYSIS HAD 994 MB LOW WEST OF DEN WITH SEMI STATIONARY FRONT DRAPED FROM CENTRAL MONTANA THROUGH EASTERN WYOMING CUTTING THROUGH NORTHEAST COLORADO THEN EAST THROUGH NORTHERN KANSAS INTO NORTHERN MISSOURI. MODELS ARE SLOWER IN THE PROGRESSION FOR TODAY BUT CONSISTENT WITH SYSTEM TO LIFT NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT. PLACEMENTS WITH THE UPPER FEATURES ARE IN QUESTION WITH A BLEND OF ETA/AVN USED. THIS EVENING THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD RAPIDLY FIRE AND MOVE NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. FEW LIGHTNING STRIKES EVIDENT ALREADY IN KANSAS WHERE SOME CLEARING HAS OCCURRED. THE SLOW EROSION OF THE STRATUS FIELD SHOULD NOT LESSON THREAT FOR THIS EVENING FROM 5 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT WHEN MAIN FORCING OF SYSTEM IS PROGGED TO LIFT NORTHEAST. THE WARM FRONT MOVES INTO THE SOUTHWEST NEAR 5 PM AS SERIES OF SHORTWAVES EMBEDDED IN THE FLOW MOVE ACROSS. INCREASING DIVERGENCE ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH H3 JET WILL PROVIDE INCREASED LIFT WITH GOOD WARM AIR ADVECTION AHEAD OF SYSTEM. BY 03Z SURFACE LOW MAY BE EAST OF IML WITH GOOD 500-300 MB QVECTOR CONVERGENCE FOCUS JUST NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 FROM LISCO TO STAPLETON...THEN LOW RACES TO THE NORTH CENTRAL BY 06Z. SURFACE LOW BEGINS TO OCCLUDE BY 06Z AS 5H LOW CLOSES OFF WITH SYSTEM TO BECOME STACKED WHILE MOVING THROUGH EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. A SECONDARY COLD FRONT WILL SWING SOUTHEAST FROM 06Z-09Z WITH SHOWERS ROTATING BACK INTO THE NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL THROUGH MID MORNING. WHILE SUBSIDENCE INCREASES ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND CLEARING BY DAYBREAK. WINDS DO POSE A PROBLEM WITH THE GRADIENT MORE RELAXED THAN LAST TWO RUNS. BUT WINDS WILL REACH ADVISORY CRITERIA BY OR SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AND WILL HIGHLIGHT WITH WINDS DIMINISHING IN THE MORNING WEST AND NORTH CENTRAL BY AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL BE SLOW TO DROP OFF WITH CLOUDS LINGERING. COOLEST READINGS TO BE OVER THE PANHANDLE ND CLOSE TO GUIDANCE. SATURDAY WINDS DIMINISH AS THE LOW LIFTS NORTHEAST TOWARD THE NORTHERN LAKES. SOME HIGH CLOUDINESS WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST OTHERWISE DRY AND WARMER. GUIDANCE CLOSE AND FOLLOWED. FRIDAY NIGHT A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AS THE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE FORMS TO THE SOUTHWEST..WITH THE FRONT EXTENDING EAST ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY 08/06Z. FEW SHOWERS MAY OCCUR OVER THE NORTH AND ELEVATED IN NATURE. THEN SUNDAY THE SEMI-STATIONARY FRONT MOVING BACK TO THE SOUTH AS THE SURFACE HIGH BUILDS INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. WEAK DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS WITH MAINLY MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS. SUNDAY NIGHT THE FRONT REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY WITH EAST WINDS ACROSS THE AREA TO INCREASE BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE WEST...WITH AREAS OF FOG AND PATCHY DRIZZLE. IN THE EXTENDED NO CHANGES MADE WITH FRIDAY PERIOD ADDED WHEN WARM FRONT MOJVES EAST WITH DRY CONDITIONS IN NORTHWEST FLOWS. .LBF...WIND ADVISORY WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL FROM MIDNIGHT TO NOON SATURDAY... TLK
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE, NE
736 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0650 PM 11 NE ENDERS NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 CHASE
0702 PM 14 NW HAYES CENTER NE .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 HAYES
0712 PM 7 SE WALLACE NE 60+ MPH TSTM WIND GUST
04/06/01 LINCOLN LARGE TREE DOWN
0710 PM 11 SE WALLACE NE .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 LINCOLN
0710 PM 11 SE WALLACE NE 60+ MPH TSTM WIND GUST
04/06/01 LINCOLN LARGE TREES DOWN
0715 PM 7 SW MADRID NE .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 PERKINS
0630 PM 11 S IMPERIAL NE .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/01 CHASE
0630 PM 11 S IMPERIAL NE 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
04/06/01 CHASE
DPThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado was reported that damaged some buildings and blew some out buildings over. It also blew down several trees.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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