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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

May 12, 1995Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 12, 6:45 PM CDTTornado F0Plainville, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 333 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-435 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
333 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
424 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 122339 COR
TORGRI
KSC141-163-130030-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
636 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...SOUTHERN OSBORNE COUNTY...SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ROOKS COUNTY

AT 633 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR AT HASTINGS INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
NEAR CODELL...OR 35 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG. CITIES IN THE PATH
OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE NATOMA.

THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
>
ADDED MOVEMENT
BW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks48 min
May 12, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDRooks47 min
May 12, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDOsborne54 min
May 12, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne37 min
May 12, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSmith30 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.