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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Hastings, NE

July 25, 2000Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2000, 1:46 AM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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: Jul 25, 2000, 1:46 AM CDT (06:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2000, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:45 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 2383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 250647
TORGRI

NEC099-250715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
146 AM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT

* AT 140 AM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS AND NATIONAL WEATHER
  SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER AXTELL...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES EAST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

AXTELL IS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO AS WELL AS RURAL SOUTHWEST 
KEARNEY COUNTY.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHWESTERN KEARNEY 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.

$$

FAY

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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 24, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	53 min
Jul 24, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	44 min
Jul 25, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	42 min
Jul 25, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	63 min
Jul 25, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	29 min
Jul 25, 12:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Dawson	37 min
Jul 25, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	45 min
Jul 25, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	49 min
Jul 25, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	35 min
Jul 25, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Kearney	5 hr
Jul 25, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	56 min
Jul 25, 1:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phelps	41 min
Jul 25, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	50 min
Jul 25, 1:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Franklin	3 hr
Jul 25, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.