Sunday's Brief Tornado Southeast of North Platte

Heavy Snow and Disruptive Ice in the Upper Midwest; Severe Thunderstorms in the Southern Plains

A late season winter storm will produce a combination of heavy snow and disruptive ice starting this evening in the Northern Plains and moving into the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes by tonight continuing through Thursday. Severe thunderstorms will likely produce severe wind gusts, large hail, a few tornadoes, and heavy rainfall across the southern and central Plains today. Read More >

Brief Tornado Touch Down Southeast of North Platte Sunday

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.