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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 8:28 PM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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 19, 2000, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kearney County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Minden, 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 |
| Jun 19, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
221 WFUS53 KGID 200130 TORGRI NEC099-200200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 828 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 825 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF MINDEN...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KEARNEY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MINDEN AT 835 PM CDT NORMAN AT 840 PM CDT PEOPLE IN EASTERN KEARNEY COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF IN A VEHICLE...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 4064 9899 4035 9899 4036 9872 4068 9873 DEG 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, 7:15 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, 8:44 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.