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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Hastings, NE

July 20, 2000Furnas County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2000, 4:49 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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: Jul 20, 2000, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Furnas County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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
Jul 20, 5:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Holbrook, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 480 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KGID 202150
TORGRI
NEC065-202230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
449 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWEST FURNAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 446 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILSONVILLE...OR ABOUT 25 
  MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HOLBROOK AT 510 PM CDT
  ARAPAHOE AT 515 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN WESTERN FURNAS COUNTY 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.

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	40 min
Jul 19, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	52 min
Jul 19, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	38 min
Jul 20, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	43 min
Jul 20, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	41 min
Jul 20, 12:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Greeley, Howard	32 min
Jul 20, 12:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	26 min
Jul 20, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard, Merrick	44 min
Jul 20, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	42 min
Jul 20, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	62 min
Jul 20, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper	48 min
Jul 20, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	57 min
Jul 20, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper	30 min
Jul 20, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	58 min
Jul 20, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	45 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.