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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
251 PM CDT Wed Apr 17 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1135 AM     Tornado          4 WSW Platte Center     41.52N 97.55W
04/16/2024                   Platte             NE   NWS Storm Survey

            This tornado track is based entirely off of
            eyewitness reports as there was no damage
            indicated along the entirety of the
            intermittent track. Emergency management,
            storm spotters, and video evidence indicate
            that the tornado began approximately 3 miles
            southwest of Platte Center. it moved
            northeast where it crossed the Central
            Highway road a half mile east of 325th
            avenue. From that point on, it became more
            intermittent, occasionally kicking up dust
            at the ground underneath the persistent
            funnel cloud. There were times, especially
            during the intermittent phase, when the
            ground level circulation went through center
            pivot irrigation systems without tipping
            them over, which has stood as the basis for
            rating this as an EF-0 tornado. Video
            evidence suggests that it was approximately
            50 yards wide at its maximum width. The
            total track length was approximately 8.4
            miles.


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