Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 7:27 PM CDT for Dawson County, Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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 22, 2000, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dawson County, NE, Gosper County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Darr, 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1000 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 230029 TORGRI NEC047-073-230115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 727 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA GOSPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR JOHNSON LAKE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... JOHNSON LAKE AT 740 PM CDT ELWOOD AT 800 PM CDT SMITHFIELD AT 805 PM CDT PEOPLE IN SOUTHWESTERN DAWSON AND GOSPER COUNTIES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF IN A VEHICLE...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE F0LAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THIS WARNING WILL REPLACE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR DAWSON AND GOSPER COUNTY. $$ LAT...LON 4035 10013 4036 9967 4080 9967 4083 10016 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 66 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.