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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 29, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rooks County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Webster, KS | Brief touchdown with no damage. |
| Jun 29, 8:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Woodston, KS | |
| Jun 29, 8:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Codell, 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 29, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
141 WFUS53 KGID 300101 TORGRI KSC163-300145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 759 PM CDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 756 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER WEBSTER STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ZURICH AT 805 PM CDT PLAINVILLE AT 810 PM CDT PEOPLE IN ROOKS 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. THIS REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST ROOKS COUNTY UNTIL 8 PM. IN ADDITION...BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH ARE LIKELY OVER NORTHERN ROOKS COUNTY INCLUDING STOCKTON AND WOODSTON. $$ KD LAT...LON 3954 9960 3914 9959 3914 9906 3955 9905 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 51 min |
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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.