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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

May 22, 2000Greeley County, Valley County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT for Greeley County, Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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
May 22, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Greeley County, NE, Valley County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2460 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 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.

739 
WFUS53 KGID 222246
TORGRI
NEC077-175-222315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
545 PM CDT MON MAY 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GREELEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  SOUTHERN VALLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 545 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 46
  MILES EAST OF BROKEN BOW...OR 3 MILES NORTH OF NORTH LOUP...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WOLBACH AT 610 PM CDT

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN GREELEY AND SOUTHEASTERN VALLEY COUNTIES 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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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.