Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT for Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 25, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Valley County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 6:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Ord, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 252303 TORGRI NEC175-252330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 600 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN VALLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 600 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER FORT HARTSUFF STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 42 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ORD AT 605 PM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHERN VALLEY COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF YOU AR`E 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. $$ LAT...LON 4186 9902 4165 9919 4147 9876 4173 9878 DDN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 41 min |
| Aug 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 65 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.