North Platte, NE
Weather Forecast Office
A thunderstorm developed just southwest of Maxwell around noon Sunday. The thunderstorm drifted slowly to the west, and produced a brief weak tornado about 7 miles south southeast of North Platte at 12:25 p.m. CDT. The tornado was on the ground for three to four minutes, and drifted slowly to the west while it was on the ground. The tornado touched down in open rangeland with no damage reported. The tornado details known include:
.TORNADO #1... RATING: EF-0 PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.50 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 25 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: JUN 14 2015 START TIME: 1225 PM CDT START LOCATION: 7.5 MILES SSE OF NORTH PLATTE/LINCOLN COUNTY/NEBRASKA START LAT/LON: 41.04N/-100.69W END DATE: JUN 14 2015 END TIME: 1229 PM CDT END LOCATION: 7.0 MILES SSE OF NORTH PLATTE/LINCOLN COUNTY/NEBRASKA END LAT/LON: 41.04N/-100.71W NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED FROM THE TORNADO. EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES. EF0...WEAK......65 TO 85 MPH EF1...WEAK......86 TO 110 MPH EF2...STRONG....111 TO 135 MPH EF3...STRONG....136 TO 165 MPH EF4...VIOLENT...166 TO 200 MPH EF5...VIOLENT...>200 MPH NOTE: The information is preliminary and subject to change pending final review of the event and publication in NWS Storm Data. |
Pictures of the tornado taken from the North Platte Weather Service office at 12:25 p.m. are shown below and found on the NWS North Platte Facebook page.
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