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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Hastings, NE

June 25, 2000Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 1:26 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min. 2 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 25, 2000, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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 25, 1:35 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Fullerton, NE
Jun 25, 1:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Fullerton, 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -296 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1430 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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.

390 
WFUS53 KGID 251826
TORGRI
NEC121-125-251900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
126 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN NANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  NORTHERN MERRICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 19 MILES WEST OF CLARKS...OR ABOUT 28 MILES
  NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CLARKS AT 200 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN SOUTHWESTERN NANCE AND NORTHERN MERRICK COUNTIES 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.

$$

LAT...LON 4139 9824 4126 9828 4112 9790 4128 9770

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	43 min
Jun 25, 1:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick	34 min
Jun 25, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	41 min
Jun 25, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick, Polk	46 min
Jun 25, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	46 min
Jun 25, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	50 min
Jun 25, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	39 min
Jun 25, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	40 min
Jun 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	45 min
Jun 25, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	42 min
Jun 25, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	43 min
Jun 25, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	50 min
Jun 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	48 min
Jun 25, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, York	38 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.