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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE

June 11, 1997Fillmore County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 2:14 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 11, 1997, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1997, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Fillmore County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 2:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Fairmont, NE

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 81 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 111914 RRA
TORGRI
NEC059-111945-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
214 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHERN FILLMORE COUNTY
 
A TORNADO IS POSSIBLE TO OCCUR ACROSS NORTHERN FILLMORE COUNTY THROUGH
245 PM.
 
AT 210 PM A SHERIFF DEPUTY WAS WATCHING A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR
GRAFTON OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF YORK.  THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST
AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR FAIRMONT BETWEEN 230 AND 245 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW.
 
PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.
 
KISNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	45 min
Jun 11, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, York	50 min
Jun 11, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	52 min
Jun 11, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	42 min
Jun 11, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	42 min
Jun 11, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper	42 min
Jun 11, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Sherman	50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.