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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Hastings, NE

June 25, 2000Merrick County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 1:56 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 25, 2000, 1:56 PM CDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Merrick County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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.

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 25, 1:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.

824 
WFUS53 KGID 251856
TORGRI
NEC121-251930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MERRICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 150 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF CLARKS...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CLARKS AT 220 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN MERRICK 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 4125 9814 4113 9806 4115 9783 4132 9763

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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, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.