Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 3:31 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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 25, 2000, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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, 4:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Woodruff, KS |
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 25, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 252033 TORGRI KSC147-252115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 331 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 330 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPEED...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL WESTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY THROUGH 340 PM CDT SPEED AT 345 PM CDT PEOPLE IN PHILLIPS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ISSUED EARLIER FOR PHILLIPS COUNTY. 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. $$ FAY NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 52 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.