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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 2000Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 1:07 AM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 26, 2000, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2000, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1344 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
1344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.0

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The text

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

587 
WFUS53 KGID 260608
TORGRI
KSC163-260645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
107 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 145 AM CDT

* AT 107 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 23 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...OR OVER
  STOCKTON...MOVING NORTH AT 8 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEAST ROOKS 
  COUNTY.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN ROOKS COUNTY 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
FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

$$

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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.