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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT for Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Valley County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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 19, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Arcadia, NE | |
| Jun 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Ord, NE | |
| Jun 19, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ord, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.
975 WFUS53 KGID 200015 TORGRI NEC175-200100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 715 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... VALLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF ARCADIA...OR ABOUT 28 MILES EAST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ORD AT 735 PM CDT NORTH LOUP AT 755 PM CDT PEOPLE IN VALLEY COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ LAT...LON 4157 9925 4140 9917 4143 9877 4173 9878 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, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.