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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 7:03 PM CDT for Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 min. 3 reports 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 19, 2000, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phelps County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bertrand, NE | |
| Jun 19, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Holdrege, NE | |
| Jun 19, 7:27 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Bertrand, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
668 WFUS53 KGID 200004 TORGRI NEC137-200045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 703 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 701 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL PHELPS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN PHELPS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ DDN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley | 51 min |
| Jun 19, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 26 min |
| Jun 19, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 65 min |
| Jun 19, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 43 min |
| Jun 19, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams | 37 min |
| Jun 19, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 43 min |
| Jun 19, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 61 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.