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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE

April 26, 2000York County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2000, 7:06 PM CDT for York County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 26, 2000, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County York County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 114 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 190 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
551 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 270007
TORGRI
TTAA00 KGRI 270006

NEC185-270045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
706 PM CDT WED APR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  YORK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 706 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF YORK...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF
  BRADSHAW...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...

  WACO
  THAYER
  BENEDICT
  YORK
PEOPLE IN YORK COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT
OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

$$

LAT...LON 4103 9778 4072 9780 4072 9739 4099 9739

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.